Key keywords: Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6-foot-8 Damm, Montreal ATP Masters 1000, overhead smash, National Bank Open, men's professional tennis, hard court rally, ATP tour highlight The 2024 Montreal ATP Masters 1000, widely known as the National Bank Open, delivered its most viral highlight of the tournament so far in the men’s singles second round, as Greek top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas pulled off a jaw-dropping defensive overhead winner against 6-foot-8 Croatian big hitter Damm, leaving fans, commentators and even his opponent stunned in the middle of a tight rally. Coming into the matchup, Tsitsipas held a 2-0 head-to-head advantage over Damm, who has built his ATP Tour reputation on blistering first serves and punishing power shots that benefit massively from his near 7-foot wingspan. On hard courts, Damm’s overhead smashes are almost always unreturnable, as he can generate unmatched angle and pace when he gets above the net to strike. The first set stayed deadlocked through six straight service holds, with neither player able to force a break point opportunity, until Damm pushed Tsitsipas to deuce in the seventh game, testing the Greek star’s defensive limits with a string of aggressive baseline strikes. The iconic play unfolded at 30-30 in that seventh game. After a 12-shot baseline exchange, Damm forced Tsitsipas three feet behind the baseline before charging the net to launch a 118-mph overhead that every spectator in IGA Stadium assumed would be an uncontested winner. What followed sparked a stadium-wide roar: Tsitsipas shifted his weight to his backhand side, leaped nearly two feet off the ground, and redirected the overhead crosscourt for a clean winner that landed inches inside the sideline, leaving Damm frozen at the net with no chance to react. The point completely shifted the momentum of the match: Tsitsipas broke Damm’s serve in the very next game to close out the first set 6-4, before cruising to a 6-3 second set win to secure his spot in the third round, where he will face American rising star Ben Shelton. Post-match, Tsitsipas laughed when asked about the shot, telling reporters, “I still don’t know how I pulled that off, honestly. His overheads are usually impossible to get back, let alone turn into a winner. I just read the direction at the last second and went for it, and it worked out perfectly.” Damm also acknowledged the play in his press conference, saying, “That’s one of the best returns of an overhead I’ve ever seen in my career. I hit that as hard as I could, thought I had the point won, and he just pulled a magic trick out of nowhere. You can’t do anything but tip your hat to a player who makes a shot like that.” The clip of the highlight has already amassed over 14 million views across social media platforms in the 24 hours after the match, making it the most shared tennis moment of the 2024 North American hard court swing to date.