Tsitsipas falls short against van de Zandschulp at Rotterdam

Stefanos Tsitsipas’ 2026 Rotterdam quality was chopped abbreviated by dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp aft helium bushed the Greek star successful straight sets to destruct him astatine the Round of 16 stage.

The Greek mislaid 4-6, 6-7 (4-7) to the dutchman to suffer an aboriginal exit astatine the ATP 500 event.

The two players held service up until 4-4 when van de Zandschulp broke done Tsitsipas’ serve, scoring a fantastic backhand that went down the enactment to spell 5-4 up earlier holding connected to take the archetypal set.

Tsitsipas seemed to travel retired successful the 2nd acceptable firing arsenic helium stormed to a 2-0 lead, but the dutchman was capable to interruption backmost straight distant and get it 2-2.

The two then held onto their serves to unit a tiebreak wherein van de Zandschulp scored two large breaks to spell 5-4 up, with him then winning the adjacent two points connected his service to unafraid the match.

Van de Zandschulp’s win secured him of a quarter-finals berth against Australian Alex De Minaur, who himself qualified by beating three-time slam champion Stan Wawrinka.