Tennis: Tsitsipas loses first match of grass-court season

Top seed Tsitsipas (above, during the French Open) was beaten 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 by world number 60 Nicolas Jarry. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

ROSMALEN, Netherlands (AFP) - Greek star Stefanos Tsitsipas suffered a shock defeat in his first grass-court match of the season with a second-round loss to Chilean Nicolas Jarry in Hertogenbosch on Thursday (June 13).

The 20-year-old top seed, playing for the first time since a dramatic fourth-round French Open exit against Stan Wawrinka, was beaten 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 by the world number 60.

Jarry will next face either Kazakh Mikhail Kuskushkin or France's Richard Gasquet in the quarter-finals after his victory over world number six Tsitsipas.

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