A very good duel with Tsitsipas and a new high on the ranking! Tomas Machac continues his excellent performance

Tomas Machac is shining on the courts this year and repeatedly outdoing himself. In Vienna, he made it from the qualification to the eighth round, where he challenged an attractive opponent. How did the duel between the Czech tennis player and Greece’s Tsitsipas go? What will his performance in Vienna mean for the ATP rankings?

The very beginning of his journey through the Vienna tournament was a successful story for Tomáš Macháč. Less than 24 hours after being eliminated from the previous event in Stockholm, the Czech Davis Cup player appeared in the first round of qualifying in Vienna.

The quick move paid off, as the 23-year-old flew through the qualification and won the opening round of the main competition of the Vienna “Five Hundred”. The eighth round brought his duel against the current sixth in the ATP rankings, Greek Tsitsipas.

Eight-final match

The second game was decisive for the outcome of the first set. Machac lost his serve in that set and although he held his serve in the opening set, he lost the set 6:3.

The second set was more promising. The Czech tennis player did not let Greco take the lead and uncompromisingly eliminated two break points of his opponent in the fifth game. in the second set, Machac was more than a match for Tsitsipas.

In the tenth game, after a successful exchange from the baseline, he got two set points and converted the first of them into a set win.

The deciding set

Machac’s run continued. With a great defensive stroke in the fourth game of the deciding set, the Czech took the chance to break and he took it. His serve did not give his opponent a sniff of a break chance in these phases of the match. The 4:1 lead was very promising.

Complications came in the seventh game, Machac lost his serve for the second time in the match and the match had to be decided by the end of the set. In that match, the Czech player confidently eliminated three break points by Tsitsipas at 5:5, but not the fourth one.

The Greek tennis player, despite the Czech player’s best efforts, had already secured the service to win the match. His quarterfinal opponent will be the wild card of the tournament, Croatian Gojo. The latter has already won a valuable scalp, in the eighth round he passed the tournament’s number six, the American Paul.

Machac’s move up the rankings

The current number two in Czech men’s tennis continues to move up the rankings. For the first time in his career, he will belong to the ATP top ten.

Conclusion

What a week, what an interesting story by the native of Beroun. Just before the start of the last Masters tournament of the season, he is definitely in good shape. There is definitely something to look forward to in Paris.

Sources: ATP, Erste Bank Open