ATP Tour

Tsitsipas battles past Anderson into Toronto final

2018-08-12 00:01

Toronto - Kevin Anderson suffered an agonising loss to Stefanos Tsitsipas in the semi-finals of the Toronto Masters on Saturday.

The Greek young gun, who turns 20 on Sunday, defeated the South African fourth seed 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 7-6 (9/7).

It was a tightly-contested battle that went down to the wire, with Tsitsipas claiming the only break of serve in the match in the second set.

Tsitsipas squandered two match points leading 6-4 in the final set tie-break, before saving a match point at 6-7 down in the shootout. He eventually claimed victory on his third match point.

Both players were looking to reach their maiden final at Masters 1000 level.

In Sunday's final, Tsitsipas will face the winner of the later match between world No 1 Rafael Nadal and Russia’s Karen Khachanov.

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