{"id":439534,"date":"2023-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/eubanks-upsets-no-5-tsitsipas-to-reach-wimbledon-last-eight\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T03:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:51:15","slug":"eubanks-upsets-no-5-tsitsipas-to-reach-wimbledon-last-eight","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/eubanks-upsets-no-5-tsitsipas-to-reach-wimbledon-last-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Eubanks upsets No. 5 Tsitsipas to reach Wimbledon last eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Wimbledon sensation, American Christopher Eubanks, produced one of the big surprises of the Grand Slam tournament, knocking out No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas in the round of 16 after 3:6, 7:6(4), 3:6, 6:4, 6:4 in a match that lasted just over three hours.<\/p>\n<p>In the first set, Tsitsipas made two breaks to win it easily 6:3. Eubanks didn&#8217;t have a chance to break in the second set, but managed to win the tiebreak 7:4 to level the score.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Christopher Eubanks\u2026 an Atlanta native, former Georgia Tech All-American and the only American remaining in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Wins in 5-sets to reach Elite 8!<\/p>\n<p>The victory over Tsisipas was his first career win over a player ranked in top-5 in the world! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l3Sn0yJFEH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/l3Sn0yJFEH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zach Klein (@ZachKleinWSB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachKleinWSB\/status\/1678427529336483841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIn the third set, Tsitsipas once again made two breaks to reach win 6:3 and stay just one away from the win, but Eubanks saved the best for the end.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth game proved pivotal in the fourth set, with Eubanks getting her first break of the match to take a 5-4 lead before closing out the set 6-4 to tie the score.<\/p>\n<p>The decisive fifth set began with an early break by Eubanks, who at that moment was having his best streak in the game and he led 1:0. Tsitsipas managed to return the break and level the score at 3:3, but immediately after that another break followed by the American tennis player, who led 4:3. Eubanks served to win the match, having to fend off two break points, but was eventually able to win the match 6-4 in the fifth set.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bXAdukhUmg4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Wimbledon sensation, American Christopher Eubanks, produced one of the big surprises of the Grand Slam tournament, knocking out No. 5 Stefanos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":439544,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20380,17072],"news_category":[20292,16715],"gn_keywords":[20382,6273],"acf":{"announce":"The American player is this year's surprise of the tournament","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439534"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439534"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}