- No 3 seed crashes out 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to dominant Tiafoe
- Tsitsipas says he lacked ‘fighting spirit’ after defeat
It could be tempting to suggest that Stefanos Tsitsipas’s early exit from the men’s singles was an example of bad luck arriving in threes. He walked on to court as the No 3 seed and also the third-favourite with the bookies, and succumbed to Frances Tiafoe in three very one-sided sets.
Tempting, perhaps, but also quite wrong. There was not a whiff of misfortune about Tsitsipas’s listless performance against an opponent who threw everything at him from the opening point and found precious little coming back the other way. He surrendered a two-set lead to Novak Djokovic in the final at Roland Garros in his last competitive match, and simply seemed to pick up where he left off in Paris.
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