{"id":23163,"date":"2026-10-08T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/stefanos-tsitsipas-advances-at-shanghai-masters-with-straight-sets-win-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:32:39","slug":"stefanos-tsitsipas-advances-at-shanghai-masters-with-straight-sets-win-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/stefanos-tsitsipas-advances-at-shanghai-masters-with-straight-sets-win-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas Advances at Shanghai Masters With Straight-Sets Win \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<h3 id=\"h-stefanos-tsitsipas-has-made-a-winning-start-at-the-shanghai-masters-defeating-belgian-qualifier-kimmer-coppejans-in-straight-sets-to-advance-to-the-second-round\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Stefanos Tsitsipas has made a winning start at the Shanghai Masters, defeating Belgian qualifier Kimmer Coppejans in straight sets to advance to the second round.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Greek star, ranked No. 43 in the world, overcame the world No. 232 <strong>6-3, 7-5<\/strong> in a composed opening-round performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tsitsipas quickly found his rhythm against Coppejans, breaking clear in the opening set to take it 6-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second set was more closely contested, but the Greek produced when it mattered most, closing it out 7-5 to secure his place in the <strong>round of 64<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tsitsipas now faces a significantly tougher test against <strong>No. 18 seed Luciano Darderi<\/strong> in the next round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Shanghai victory gives the Greek another opportunity to build momentum as he looks to climb back up the ATP rankings.<\/p>\n<p><!--[googlesitekit-end-of-content]--><\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tATP, Greece, Greece news, Greek athletes, Greek news, Greek tennis, Luciano Darderi, Shanghai Masters, Sports, Stefanos Tsitsipas, tennis, tennis news, Tsitsipas\t<\/div>\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\/10\/08\/stefanos-tsitsipas-shanghai-masters-coppejans\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas has made a winning start at the Shanghai Masters, defeating Belgian qualifier Kimmer Coppejans in straight sets to advance to the second round. The Greek star, ranked No. 43 in the world, overcame the world No. 232 6-3, 7-5 in a composed opening-round performance. Tsitsipas quickly found his rhythm against Coppejans, breaking clear &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Stefanos Tsitsipas Advances at Shanghai Masters With Straight-Sets Win \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/stefanos-tsitsipas-advances-at-shanghai-masters-with-straight-sets-win-greek-city-times\/#more-23163\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stefanos Tsitsipas Advances at Shanghai Masters With Straight-Sets Win \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23164,"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\/06\/tsitsipas_ap.jpg.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23163","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\/23163","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=23163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}