He was in all kinds of trouble in the first set—down 5-3, faced a set point down 5-4, down 3-0 in the tie-break, faced another set point down 7-6 in the tie-break—but Stefanos Tsitsipas dug out of all of those holes and eventually beat Serbia’s Laslo Djere in two tie-breaks in his opening match in Acapulco on Tuesday night, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4).
And it was a milestone—it was the 200th tour-level win of Tsitsipas’ career.
TSITSIPAS’ WIN-LOSS RECORDS BY YEAR (tour-level)
2017: 4-10
2018: 46-27
2019: 54-25
2020: 29-14
2021: 55-19
2022: 12-4
CAREER: 200-99
Tsitsipas is the first man born in 1998 or later to record 200 career wins, and the ninth man born in 1990 or later to do it.
PLAYERS BORN IN 1990 OR LATER WITH 200+ CAREER WINS (men, tour-level)
372: Milos Raonic (born in 1990)
350: Grigor Dimitrov (born in 1991)
319: Alexander Zverev (born in 1997)
309: Dominic Thiem (born in 1993)
295: David Goffin (born in 1990)
238: Pablo Carreno Busta (born in 1991)
232: Daniil Medvedev (born in 1996)
217: Diego Schwartzman (born in 1992)
200: Stefanos Tsitsipas (born in 1998)