Stefanos Tsitsipas did a little bit of everything in his match against Diego Schwartzman at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters as the Greek dominated before choking on an epic scale and coming back to win in an even more impressive fashion.
The final score was 6-2 6-7(3) 6-4 for the Greek who advances to the semifinal of the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters after the craziest match of the day. Stefanos Tsitsipas dominated for the better part of the match before choking the 2nd set away and coming back to win in spectacular fashion. Tsitsipas has great comfort in the Principality of Monaco as the Greek raced to the trophy last year and looked well on his way to another one this year.
The start was great as he broke Schwartzman early and we almost saw a bagel. It was 3-0 then 5-0 and then 5-2. Tsitsipas served for the set at 5-1 but choked it a bit ultimately settling on a 6-2 finish. It was a sign of things to come but nobody could have imagined what kind of choke would follow. The 2nd set featured more good play from Tsitsipas who was looking at a very tired Argentinian.
Schwartzman played a couple of marathon matches in the previous rounds and it clearly affected him. Tsitsipas took a 3-1 early lead that became a 5-2 lead later on. From that point on Tsitsipas lost 11 points in a row losing his serve at 5-4 when he served for the match. We arrived at the tiebreak and then Tsitsipas choked once sailing balls wide at an alarming pace. He lost it 3-7 and we moved to the 3rd set.
In the 3rd we saw more choking from the Greek. He did not open well and in his first service game, he committed a foot fault on 2nd serve at 30-30. Schwartzman jumped out to a 4-0 lead but found himself choking it away allowing Tsitsipas to come back to 4-3. By then the Greek was rolling and he rolled into the semifinal with a 6-4 final set finish.
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