Stefanos Tsitsipas shook off some early struggles to make an ultimately confident start to his 2023 ABN AMRO Open campaign on Tuesday, when the top-seeded Greek defeated Emil Ruusuvuori 7-5, 6-1 in Rotterdam.
Tsitsipas was greeted with an early barrage of clean hitting from the World No. 52 Ruusuvuori at the indoor ATP 500 event. The Greek trailed 3-5 in the opening set but, as he has done so often already in the 2023 season, he dialled in behind his serve and forehand to grind his way back into the match. Tsitsipas won 10 of the next 11 games to accelerate away from the Finn for a one-hour, 33-minute victory.
Tsitsipas now holds a 13-1 record for the season, with his only defeat coming against Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open championship match. The 24-year-old’s next test in Rotterdam, where he reached the final in 2022, will be a second-round clash against Jannik Sinner or Benjamin Bonzi.
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