Tsitsipas Celebrates Milestone Win Against De Minaur

Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas piled up more momentum on Thursday ahead of his debut appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals next month.

The World No. 7 beat #NextGenATP Aussie Alex de Minaur 6-3, 6-4 at the Rolex Paris Masters to make his fourth ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final of the season and earn his 50^th win of 2019, a career-best mark (46 last year). Tsitsipas also celebrated the 100^th tour-level win of his career.

The 21-year-old broke De Minaur three times, including during the second game of the opening set and the ninth game of the second set, to improve to 3-0 in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with De Minaur. Tsitsipas also beat the Aussie during the 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals title match.

De Minaur, No. 18 in the ATP Rankings, will return to the award-winning 21-and-under tournament next week as the top seed and will try to triumph in Milan for the first time.

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Tsitsipas, who also made Masters 1000 quarter-finals in Rome, Madrid and Shanghai, will make his debut at the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals, to be held 10-17 November at The O2 in London. In Paris, the Greek star will next meet four-time champion Novak Djokovic or Briton Kyle Edmund for a place in the semi-finals. Tsitsipas beat Djokovic earlier this month to reach the Rolex Shanghai Masters semi-finals.

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