Stan Wawrinka to face Federer in French Open quarter-finals

TIL Desk Sports/ Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka outlasted Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6 (8-6), 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 8-6 in a marathon French Open fourth-round clash that lasted five hours and nine minutes, the longest match at this year’s edition of the second Grand Slam event of the season.

Four years after winning his lone Roland Garros trophy, Wawrinka on Sunday had to dig deep to bring Tsitsipas’s best French Open run to an end at Court Suzanne Lenglen. Both players seemed to have difficulty recovering from third round matches that they had to wrap up on Saturday, a day after the contests were suspended due to darkness.

Wawrinka made short work of Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets, while the Greek needed four sets to get past Filip Krajinovic, of Serbia. But it was all a thing of the past once the two men were on the court, as they drew out the first set, although the Greek player had a break point in the fifth game, forcing a tie-breaker that the Swiss won. Tsitsipas got the first service break to lead Wawrinka 2-0, but the Swiss capitalised on the first opportunity he had in the second set to break back and then tied it at 3-3.