Murray Leads Tsitsipas as Play Suspended by Wimbledon Curfew

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Thursday, June 6, 2023

To be continued.

 

Both Andy Murray and Stefanos Tsitispas can have an evening to sleep on issues earlier than resuming their to date stellar second spherical encounter at Wimbledon.

 

Two-time Wimbledon champion Murray finds himself main two units to 1 6-7(3), 7-6(2), 6-4 over the No. 5 seed Tsitsipas. The match was suspended because of the native council curfew that prohibits exercise after 11 p.m in consideration for native residents.

 

The second spherical match lived as much as its early billing as each males performed exceptionally effectively delighting the partisan Centre Court crowd hoping that Murray may pull off the upset.

 

Yet Murray raised some query marks about his bodily well being within the late phases of the third set.

 

Murray, whereas serving to take the third set, slipped at the back of Centre Court and fell to the bottom. Issuing a pointy cry of ache, Murray appeared to injured his groin or thigh. Fortunately for him, he managed to get again on his toes and serve out the doubtless decisive third set at 6-4.

 

A couple of minutes later, each gamers agreed to name time on the match and resume issues tomorrow after the scheduled Carlos Alcaraz and Alexandre Muller second spherical assembly.

 

Before that, the match proved to be an thrilling and shut encounter with every participant displaying off their perfect in entrance of the Centre Court crowd.

 

After a really shut first set, Tsitsipas used his forehand to nice benefit to ultimately take the opening set tiebreak.

 

The second set proved simply as shut. Yet, Murray who served effectively and stored his unforced errors to a minimal and pushed issues to a different tiebreak. On the third level, Tsitsipas netted a forehand that handed Murray an early mini-break that he held onto to ultimately take the tiebreak and stage together with his opponent.

 

Murray then broke Tsitsipas at love at the beginning of the third set. Murray, who solely had 10 unforced errors to date, held onto his break benefit to ultimately shut out the set 6-4 and take the 2 units to like lead.

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