Stefanos Tsitsipas will drop to his lowest ATP Rating in nearly seven years after a shocking French Open exit to world No 167 Matteo Gigante.
Greek star Tsitsipas, the twentieth seed at Roland Garros, was crushed 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 by Gigante out on Courtroom Simonne-Mathieu, the Italian saving a number of break factors as he closed out the match.
It’s simply the second time that Gigante has performed at a Grand Slam event and the primary time he has reached the third spherical of a serious event.
“I really feel very, superb for certain,” stated Gigante on court docket. “It was a combat. He’s a tremendous participant, so I play very properly and I’m very completely happy.
“That is the fruit of the job that I do daily. I say thanks to my workforce and nothing else.”
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Having come by qualifying to achieve the third spherical of Roland Garros, world No 167 Gigante is projected to rise to 129th within the ATP Rankings, eclipsing his earlier career-high of world No 132.
The 23-year-old will face thirteenth seed Ben Shelton in spherical three on Friday, with the American having acquired a walkover into the third spherical of the occasion following the withdrawal of Hugo Gaston.
Gigante is the primary qualifier in 17 years to defeat a former French Open finalist within the males’s singles, following Eduardo Schwank’s win over Carlos Moya again in 2008.
Nevertheless, whereas it was pleasure for Gigante, a shocking defeat to an opponent 147 locations under him within the ATP Rankings cements Tsitsipas’ latest struggles.
The Greek fell out of the highest 10 after failing to defend his Monte Carlo Masters title again in April and has now suffered his earliest French Open exit since a round-two exit to Dominic Thiem in 2018.
Tsitsipas had reached not less than the fourth spherical of the event yearly since then, together with runs to the semi-final in 2020 and the ultimate in 2021.
Former world No 3 Tsitsipas was defending 400 quarter-final factors at Roland Garros following a run to the final eight again in 2024.
Nevertheless, with solely 50 rating factors provided to those that lose within the second spherical, the Greek will drop from 2,270 to 1,920 factors when the rankings replace post-tournament.
Presently ranked twentieth on the planet, Tsitsipas will drop not less than 5 locations to world No 25 on Monday, June ninth.
He can be knocked right down to world No 26 within the ATP Dwell Rankings ought to present world No 26 Flavio Cobolli defeat Matteo Arnaldi of their second-round conflict on Thursday.
Tsitsipas has not been ranked outdoors the highest 20 since August 2018, when he leapt from world No 27 to No 15 after a run to his first Masters 1000 ultimate on the Canadian Open.
A two-time Grand Slam finalist on the peak of his powers, he faces an uphill activity to rescue his rating over the approaching months.
Wimbledon and the US Open have historically been his weakest Slams, by no means making it previous spherical 4 at SW19 or spherical three at Flushing Meadows.
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