{"id":20921,"date":"2026-09-05T01:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/tsitsipas-stuns-lehecka-to-reach-us-open-round-of-16-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:53:56","slug":"tsitsipas-stuns-lehecka-to-reach-us-open-round-of-16-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/tsitsipas-stuns-lehecka-to-reach-us-open-round-of-16-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas Stuns Lehecka to Reach US Open Round of 16 \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stefanos Tsitsipas has reached the US Open round of 16 for the first time in his career, finally breaking through after nine previous appearances at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Greek star produced another impressive comeback, defeating 18th seed Jiri Lehecka 2\u20136, 6\u20131, 7\u20136(3), 6\u20131 in 2 hours and 34 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tsitsipas, 28, who previously reached a career high of No. 3 in the ATP rankings, had never advanced beyond the third round at the US Open. His latest victory marks a major milestone in New York and continues his strong run of form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will now face either American eighth seed Ben Shelton or Canadian former top 10 player Denis Shapovalov in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tsitsipas has previously defeated Shelton, winning their meeting in Cincinnati in 2023. Against Shapovalov, however, the Greek holds a 2\u20135 head-to-head record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With another milestone now within reach, Tsitsipas will look to continue his breakthrough run and reach the US Open quarterfinals for the first time.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"category_container author-information\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<section id=\"authorpage\" class=\"authorpage\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/99ca06517608e7af44e9761bf7c358974ffbc4a43859fd8e5be6fc2f50d341af?s=164&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/99ca06517608e7af44e9761bf7c358974ffbc4a43859fd8e5be6fc2f50d341af?s=328&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-164 photo lazyload\" height=\"164\" width=\"164\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-content\">\n<h5>Bill Giannopoulos<\/h5>\n<h4>Junior Editor<\/h4>\n<p>Bill Giannopoulos is a Junior Editor at Greek City Times, covering Greek and international news, sport, and history.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.gr\" class=\"boxed-icon fill\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-link\"\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/09\/05\/tsitsipas-beats-lehecka-reaches-us-open-round-of-16\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas has reached the US Open round of 16 for the first time in his career, finally breaking through after nine previous appearances at Flushing Meadows. The Greek star produced another impressive comeback, defeating 18th seed Jiri Lehecka 2\u20136, 6\u20131, 7\u20136(3), 6\u20131 in 2 hours and 34 minutes. Tsitsipas, 28, who previously reached a &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Tsitsipas Stuns Lehecka to Reach US Open Round of 16 \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/tsitsipas-stuns-lehecka-to-reach-us-open-round-of-16-greek-city-times\/#more-20921\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tsitsipas Stuns Lehecka to Reach US Open Round of 16 \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HRaSx41bAAA9Jni.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}