Stefanos Tsitsipas loses match in 25 minutes after issuing Munich Open complaint | Tennis | Sport

The former world No. 3 had a match point on Marozsan’s serve at 6-5 in the second set yesterday evening, but failed to take it, and then lost the set in a tiebreak. It was all square at 2-2 in the decider when the umpire officially suspended play, with daylight fading. Tsitsipas had asked for the match to be stopped due to darkness at the end of the second set.

The Greek star was spotted in conversation with the supervisor and with chair umpire Renaud Lichtenstein, who then approached Mazosan. “Just wondering whether this is perhaps about the light, because it’s 6.50pm local time and there’s been a lot of cloud cover, a lot of dark cloud cover as well,” commentator Pete Odgers said at the time.

Lucie Ahl replied: “It’s whether they’re going to start it, I think. I think they’re going to. They’re basically telling the players, probably, what time they can go on until, and it seems maybe as if Tsitsipas… He doesn’t want to play on, I don’t think.”

Lichtenstein continued explaining the situation to Tsitsipas and Marozsan. “They want us to continue now,” he said. “Let’s continue, and we will have to play an even number of games, and then we stop, okay?” Tsitsipas didn’t look best pleased, and said: “I prefer to play in light.” But they decided to start the third and final set.

And when the umpire finally halted play after four games, after Tsitsipas had saved a break point, the Greek star wasn’t happy. “Now he wants to play,” Odgers laughed. The umpire explained: “I told you, we cannot stop in the middle of the game. You both served an equal amount of games, so we stop.”

Both men continued holding serve, and Tsitsipas, now ranked down at No. 67 in the world, had to serve to stay in it at 4-5. He was back under pressure and received a time violation while 15-30 down. Tsitsipas then had to save two match points, looking frustrated as he struggled to get out of the game.

And it was third time lucky for Marozsan, as Tsitsipas couldn’t get the ball back into play and sent it flying into the air to hand the world No. 42 victory. Marozsan will now face Denis Shapovalov in the third round.

“It was really tough. Yesterday, I came back from the second set and it was very tough because it’s different conditions, different way, different weather. For sure, he’s a great player,” Marozsan said of his unusual two-day victory.

“And the court is a little bit soft, a lot of bad bounces, but I tried just to focus on myself, and I tried to do my best, of course. And I’m just really happy to beat him now, because last time, I lost against him, so it’s a good one for me.”

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