by Tallon Griekspoor stunned an astonished top seed alexander Zverev 4-6, 7/5) in the second round in Indian Wells on Friday in the second round in Indian Wells and venued a devastating defeat against the Germans in Roland Garros last year.
Zverev, the number two in the world, which leads the field of the prestigious ATP Masters event with Jannik Sünder No. 1, which serves a three-month ban on drugs, is the first seed by the Indian Wells men, which has loses its opening game since Andy Murray 2017.
The defeat in a highly packed stadium Court-Clash continued for Zverev, because it fell to sinners in the Australian Open final.
Since then, the German early outputs in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Acapulco had made.
Zverev was broken with 5: 6 in the third set and saves five match points in a dramatic 12th game and finally converted his fifth break point of the game to force the tie-breaker.
But Griekspoor sealed the first chance in the decision, and the Dutch player was pleased to get it over the line against a player who had won his last five encounters, including four last year.
“It was such a mental thing,” said Griekspoor, and last year called his loss against Zverev at Roland Garros – where he took a double break in the fifth set – “absolute heart pain”.
“I played so many battles against him and had chances, but they all went in the way,” said Griekspoor, who won his first victory over a top 5 player in his 19th attempt.
“I am incredibly proud of this performance and to bring it over the line.”
In the Seekasw battle, the Zverev rally of 2: 5 in the second set of 6: 5 was brought in, but it was broken when it served for the match and Griekspoor made the best of a number of Zverev errors in the tie-breaker to achieve Level.
Griekspoor the next compared to France Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, the 29th seed, which led 6-4, as the Hungarian Fabien Marozsan withdrew from her game of the second round.
– Medwedev among the lights –
Russian Daniil Medvedev, second place by Carlos Alcaraz in the past two years, takes over the night session against China’s Bu Yunchhaokete.
If he can finally break through a first title in the California desert, Medledew Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer would be the only men who win all current six ATP Masters Hard Court title.
All 32 men’s and women’s seeds in the combined ATP Masters and WTA 1000 event had the first round.
Alcaraz, who took second place on Saturday when he started a third Indian Wells ATP title against France Quentin Halys when Djokovic set the sixth place when he was looking for a record setting title, Botetic van de Zandschulp.
The defending champion of women, Iga Swiatek, who could be the first woman to win the three Indian Wells titles, later looked against the French veteran Caroline Garcia on Friday.
Also in action are Jessica Pegula of the USA and 17-year-old Russian Russian Mirra Andreeva, who became the youngest WTA 1000 champion in Dubai last month.
Andreeva, who joked that her 18th birthday in April means that she would be “an old woman”, said that since her remarkable run in Dubai, where she was beating three Grand Slam winners, including Swiatek, on the way to the final.
“Now there have been almost two weeks … I also have to show my best tennis here,” she said. “I will also try to win this tournament and do my best.”
BB/RCW
