Stefanos Tsitsipas cruised past Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas 6-1 6-4 6-2 in 1 hour and 28 minutes to reach the third round at Roland Garros for the second year in a row.
Tsitsipas dropped just four first serve points and dropped his serve just once. The Greek player hit 26 winners to 18 unforced errors.
The 2019 ATP Finals champion broke twice in a row in the second and fourth games to win the first set 6-1. Tsitsipas earned an early break in the opening game of the second set. Cuevas broke back at love to draw level to 3-3. Tsitsipas converted his fourth break point in the seventh game to take a 4-3. Cuevas fended off five set points and held his serve in the ninth game. Tsitsipas served out the second set at 30.
Tsitsipas broke twice in the first and third games and held his next service games to win the third set 6-2. For the Athens player it was a much easier match compared to the first round, where he came back from two sets down in his hard-fought win over Jaume Munar.
Tsitsipas leads 4-0 in his head-to-head matches against Cuevas. Last week the Greek star won their previous clash 7-5 6-4 in Hamburg. Tsitsipas set up a third round match against Aljaz Bedene, who edged past Nikola Milojevic 7-5 2-6 6-1 7-6 (7-4) after 2 hours and 54 minutes.
