By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday Might 27, 2024
Stefanos Tsitsipas is likely one of the names that retains popping up when individuals focus on the gamers which have an opportunity to steal away with the Roland-Garros males’s singles title this yr. No, he’s not a favourite, and the Greek even stated so himself on Monday after he took out Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics, 7-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Extra importantly, Tsitsipas isn’t happy.
“After all I would not lie that I have not been totally happy and pleased with the best way my outcomes have proven in the previous couple of years,” he advised reporters, including that he feels there stays much more for him to realize.
“I really feel like there’s a hole and I may shut that hole much more,” he stated. “There are two ways in which I have a look at it. One is like I am a late bloomer and I nonetheless want time to develop into this nice participant that I have not been capable of actually present.”
25-year-old Tsitsipas has 11 ATP titles and two Grand Slam finals to his identify, along with three Masters 1000 titles and his greatest profession title, which got here on the Nitto ATP Finals in 2019.
He says it’s nice, however not sufficient.
“I’ve had the possibility and privilege to win the Nitto Finals,” he stated. “It’s nonetheless my greatest second in tennis. However I nonetheless really feel like there’s extra to it than simply that. I’ve received 3 times in Monte-Carlo. It is a terrific feeling to be topped the Masters 1000 champion, however I nonetheless do really feel like there may be rather more to realize and achieve within the sport, and it would not cease there.”
The No.9-seeded Greek is in Carlos Alcaraz’s quarter of the draw, and will face Andrey Rublev within the spherical of 16 if the seeds maintain. In his subsequent match he’ll face difficult German Daniel Altmaier.
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— Stefanos Tsitsipas (@steftsitsipas) Might 27, 2024
In a yr the place the lads’s singles draw is extra extensive open than ever in Paris, he says he’s ready for a possibility to pounce on.
“I simply look forward to my alternatives,” he stated. “I hope they present up, and I hope — there may be clearly loads of hope, and I preserve saying “hope, hope,” however I am concentrating on these massive matches that can present up in some unspecified time in the future throughout hopefully this week or subsequent week or the subsequent few months.
“I’m mentally getting ready for these battles, and I do know that these matches are the form of matches that I should get by and maybe write historical past if I’m able to overtake them and win them and seize these moments in a optimistic means.”
Nonetheless Sees Djokovic Because the Favourite
Tsitsipas, like Casper Ruud, believes that top-seeded Novak Djokovic is the favourite, regardless of his subpar season thus far. Right here’s how he explains his rationale.
“I might say most likely it is Novak Djokovic continues to be the favourite, as a result of he has received right here [three] occasions,” he stated. “Regardless of possibly not the most effective outcomes from his facet in the previous couple of weeks by way of we had been used to Djokovic profitable virtually each week – and it hasn’t occurred in the previous couple of weeks – I nonetheless think about him the favourite.”
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