Stefanos Tsitsipas defeats Ilya Ivashka to advance to top eight

• Tsitsipas defeated Ivashka to move to the quarterfinals.
• The game lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes.
• He will now face Giron in the quarterfinals.

In the opening round of the Mallorca Championships on Wednesday, Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated Ilya Ivashka 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals.

In his victory that lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes, he did not experience a breakpoint.

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With only five points surrendered throughout the entire match, the sixth-ranked player in the ATP Rankings dominated on the strength of his first serve.

The 2019 Nitto ATP Finals champion successfully guarded his second serve, winning 74% of those points, in part due of his aggressive, first-strike tennis.

“[My] serve [is] very important on these kinds of courts. I think I was managing the situations on my serve very well,” Tsitsipas said in his on-court interview.

Tsitsipas has now won all three ATP Head2Head meetings against Ivashka in 2018 on hard, clay, and grass courts.

The Greek’s next opponent will be the American Marcos Giron, who upset fellow countryman Mackenzie McDonald 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4.

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