No shoelaces? No problem for Tsitsipas

It is, admittedly, a uniquely 21st-century tennis problem.

Greek teenager Stefanos Tsitsipas, in his first career ATP Tour quarterfinal, found himself shoelace-less in Antwerp Thursday as he faced top seed and home-country favorite David Goffin.

How did he break them?

Sliding on the court. Happens to you all the time, right?

Tsitsipas had a replacement set with him.

Those broke, too.

Luckily, his father/coach Apostolos donated his own to the cause. And Tsitsipas went on to the biggest win of his career, a comeback 2-6, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4) victory that put him in the semifinals out of the qualifying.

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