Supporters of American men’s tennis, meet your latest grand slam hope
The unheralded 27-year-old Atlanta native shocked No. 5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas on Monday in five gripping sets — 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 — to reach the quarterfinals of Wimbledon and alter the trajectory of his career.
“I feel like I’m living a dream right now,” Eubanks in his post-match, on-court interview. “This is absolutely insane.” Eubanks is making his Wimbledon main draw debut and just his ninth career appearance in a major. His previous best results in a major came when he reached the second round of last year’s US Open and this year’s Australian Open.He had previously made $1.8 million in singles and doubles combined in his entire career.The breakthrough followed losses earlier at Wimbledon by the usual would-be American contenders: Taylor Fritz lost in Round 2, and Frances Tiafoe fell in Round 3.
Less pre-tournament attention was on Eubanks, who rose to a career-best ranking of No. 43 when he won a grass-court tournament in Mallorca, Spain, in the run-up to Wimbledon for his first ATP Tour title. Christopher Eubanks celebrates during his fourth-round match against Stefanos Tsitsipas at Wimbledon.At the All-England Club, he dispatched Brazil’s Thiago Monteiro in the first round, upset No. 12 Cam Norrie of Great Britain in the second round and blew past Australia’s Christopher O’Connell in the third round to set up the fourth-round clash with Tsitsipas.It came with American women’s tennis starlet Coco Gauff watching from his player’s box.
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