Tennis-Tsitsipas making noise in Toronto with Big Three absent


  • Tennis
  • Saturday, 14 Aug 2021

FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Tennis - Men's Singles - Round 3 - Ariake Tennis Park - Tokyo, Japan - July 28, 2021. Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in action during his third round match against Ugo Humbert of France REUTERS/Edgar Su

TORONTO (Reuters) - The 'Big Three' of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal all decided to sit out this week's Masters 1000 event in Toronto but Stefanos Tsitsipas has provided plenty of buzz as he stormed into the semi-finals of the U.S. Open tune-up on Friday.

The French Open finalist continued the stellar form he has displayed all season during a 6-1 6-4 thrashing of sixth-seeded Norwegian Casper Ruud that gave Tsitsipas his tour-leading 45th victory of the year.

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