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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Stefanos Tsitsipas stuns Roger Federer in four-set Australian Open thriller

• No 14 seed wins 6-7 (11), 7-6 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (5) • Tsitsipas will face Roberto Bautista-Agut in quarters Roger Federer, who was the oldest player left in the men’s draw at 37, gave his blessing to the youngest, 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas, after the Greek prodigy beat him to reach his first quarter-final of a slam and declared himself, “the happiest man on earth”. The eminent loser – a six-time Australian champion reaching for his third here in a row – was happy for him too, although he later riled at John McEnroe’s on-court suggestion that Tsitsipas’s 6-7 (11), 7-6 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (5) win in three hours and 45 minutes represented a changing of the guard. Continue reading...


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