Wimbledon: Tiafoe after Tsitsipas upset - I'm not even close to where I want to be
Unseeded American Tiafoe ousted Tsitsipas in straight sets, winning 6-4 6-4 6-3 to make the Greek the first major casualty of the men’s draw.
Tsitsipas was in action for the first time since losing the French Open final to Novak Djokovic on June 13 and struggled to cope with Tiafoe’s aggressive style, suffering a break of serve in the very first game.
While that was the only break of the first set, it gave Tsitsipas a deficit he never recovered from, and he was broken again at 4-4 in the second as Tiafoe made his lead even more commanding.
Tiafoe then saw things out impressively, his 17 winners to his opponent’s 10 in the third set reflecting the American’s greater confidence as he made Tsitsipas the first third seed to lose in the opening round of the grass-court tournament since Andre Agassi in 1996.
And Tiafoe reckons there is more where that came from.
“Definitely one of my best [performances], from start to finish it was pretty clean,” the 23-year-old told the BBC.
