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'''Stefanos Tsitsipas''' ({{lang-gr|Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς}}, {{IPA-el|ˈstefanos t͡sit͡siˈpas|pron}}; born 12 August 1998) is a [[Greece|Greek]] professional tennis player. He is the youngest player ranked in the top 20 by the [[Association of Tennis Professionals]] (ATP) and has a career-high ranking of No. 15 in the world.<ref name=atp-rankings/> He became the first Greek player to win an ATP title at the [[2018 Stockholm Open|Stockholm Open]] towards the end of 2018, before winning the [[2018 Next Generation ATP Finals|Next Gen Finals]] a few weeks later.
'''Stefanos Tsitsipas''' ({{lang-gr|Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς}}, {{IPA-el|ˈstefanos t͡sit͡siˈpas|pron}};<ref>{{cite web|title=The pronunciation by Stefanos Tsitsipas himself|url=https://www.atptour.com/-/media/player-names/stefanos-tsitsipas-pronounciation.mp3|work=ATPWorldTour.com|accessdate=16 December 2018}}</ref> born 12 August 1998) is a [[Greece|Greek]] professional tennis player. He is the youngest player ranked in the top 20 by the [[Association of Tennis Professionals]] (ATP) and has a career-high ranking of No. 15 in the world.<ref name=atp-rankings/> He became the first Greek player to win an ATP title at the [[2018 Stockholm Open|Stockholm Open]] towards the end of 2018, before winning the [[2018 Next Generation ATP Finals|Next Gen Finals]] a few weeks later.


Born into a tennis family where his mother was a professional on the [[Women's Tennis Association]] (WTA) tour and his father was trained as a tennis coach, Tsitsipas was introduced to the sport at age three and began taking lessons at age six. As a junior, he was ranked No. 1 in the world. He also became the third Greek player, and first Greek male in the Open Era, to win a junior Grand Slam title with a victory in the [[2016 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles|2016 Wimbledon boys' doubles event]].
Born into a tennis family where his mother was a professional on the [[Women's Tennis Association]] (WTA) tour and his father was trained as a tennis coach, Tsitsipas was introduced to the sport at age three and began taking lessons at age six. As a junior, he was ranked No. 1 in the world. He also became the third Greek player, and first Greek male in the Open Era, to win a junior Grand Slam title with a victory in the [[2016 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles|2016 Wimbledon boys' doubles event]].

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Stefanos Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas at the 2018 Washington Open
Country (sports) Greece
ResidenceVouliagmeni, Athens, Greece
Born (1998-08-12) 12 August 1998 (age 25)[1]
Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro2016
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
CoachApostolos Tsitsipas
Prize money$2,008,000
Official websitestsitsipas.com
Singles
Career record50–37 (57.5%)
Career titles1
Highest rankingNo. 15 (13 August 2018)
Current rankingNo. 15 (12 November 2018)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open1R (2018)
French Open2R (2018)
Wimbledon4R (2018)
US Open2R (2018)
Doubles
Career record3–10 (23.1%)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 223 (5 November 2018)
Current rankingNo. 225 (12 November 2018)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon1R (2018)
US Open2R (2018)
Last updated on: 12 November 2018.

Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greek: Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς, pronounced [ˈstefanos t͡sit͡siˈpas];[2] born 12 August 1998) is a Greek professional tennis player. He is the youngest player ranked in the top 20 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and has a career-high ranking of No. 15 in the world.[3] He became the first Greek player to win an ATP title at the Stockholm Open towards the end of 2018, before winning the Next Gen Finals a few weeks later.

Born into a tennis family where his mother was a professional on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour and his father was trained as a tennis coach, Tsitsipas was introduced to the sport at age three and began taking lessons at age six. As a junior, he was ranked No. 1 in the world. He also became the third Greek player, and first Greek male in the Open Era, to win a junior Grand Slam title with a victory in the 2016 Wimbledon boys' doubles event.

Tsitsipas won his first ATP match in late 2017 and quickly ascended up the ATP rankings the following year, becoming the second highest ranked Greek player in history after Eleni Daniilidou. He has reached three ATP finals in 2018, winning one title. In particular, with his runner-up finish at the Canadian Open, he became the youngest player to defeat four top ten opponents in a single tournament. Additionally, his first final at the Barcelona Open helped him garner national attention in his native Greece.

Early life and background

Tsitsipas was born on 12 August 1998 to Apostolos Tsitsipas and Julia Apostoli (née Salnikova) in a suburb of Athens. His father is Greek and his mother is Russian. Both of his parents are experienced tennis players, and his mother in particular was a world No. 1 junior who had a career-high professional ranking inside the top 200.[4] His parents had been working as tennis instructors at the Astir Palace resort hotel at the time of his birth.[5] They originally met at a WTA tournament in Athens where his mother was competing and his father was a line judge.[6] Stefanos has three younger siblings, including two brothers Petros and Pavlos, and a sister Elisavet. All of his siblings are also tennis players.[7]

With their strong backgrounds in tennis, Tsitsipas's parents got their oldest son started on tennis at a very young age. He said, "My first memory is to be three and to hit balls with my father in the gap between lessons. I remember watching games on TV, as a baby, I can not tell you who was playing, but I remember watching."[6] He also participated in other sports as a kid, including football and swimming. His father said Stefanos made the decision to become a tennis player himself, recalling that his son "woke up in the middle of the night" after a tournament in France at age nine and told him "Dad, I have to tell you something: I want to become a tennis player, I like the competition, I like the challenge."[8][9]

Tsitsipas began taking lessons at Tennis Club Glyfada near Athens at the age of six, and has long since continued to train there.[6][10] His father has always served as his primary coach, and he formally studied tennis coaching at the University of Athens to help train his children.[4][9][10] In 2015, Tsitsipas also began training at the Patrick Mouratoglou Academy, splitting time between France and Greece during this period.[11][12][13]

Junior career

Tsitsipas at the 2015 US Open

Tsitsipas is a former world No. 1 junior.[14] He began playing on the ITF junior circuit in 2013 at the age of 14. He did not play in any high-level Grade A tournaments until the Abierto Juvenil Mexicano in November 2014, but was able to make it all the way to the final of his second career Grade A event at the Orange Bowl a month later.[14][15] Tsitsipas had entered the tournament ranked outside of the top 100 in the junior rankings.[16] In 2015, Tsitsipas got his first opportunity to play in the junior Grand Slam tournaments. In these four events, a quarterfinal at the Australian Open was his best result.[14] He did not win any singles finals that year, but he did have another runner-up finish at the Orange Bowl, this time losing to Miomir Kecmanović in a third set tiebreak.[14][17] He finished the season as the No. 14 ranked junior in the world.[18]

In 2016, Tsitsipas had a breakout year, reaching at least the quarterfinals of all eight tournaments that he played, including all four Grand Slams.[14] He became the top-ranked junior in the world after winning his first Grade A title at the Trofeo Bonfiglio.[19] Tsitsipas also won the European Junior Championships later in the year.[20] Tsitsipas's biggest title of the season came in doubles, when he partnered with Estonian player Kenneth Raisma to win his only junior Grand Slam event at Wimbledon.[21] He became the first male Greek to win a junior Grand Slam in the Open Era, and the second overall after Nicky Kalogeropoulos won both the French Open and Wimbledon in 1963.[6] Eleni Daniilidou had also won a junior Grand Slam doubles title in 1999 while representing Greece.[22] Besides his doubles triumph, Tsitsipas also had his two best finishes in the Grand Slams singles events that year, making the semifinals of both Wimbledon and the US Open.[23][24] He ended the year as the No. 2 ranked junior in the world, behind only Kecmanović who had played several more events.[25]

Professional career

2013–17: Top 100, ATP semifinal, top 10 victory

Tsitsipas with the runner-up trophy at the 2017 Brest Challenger

Tsitsipas began playing low-level ITF Futures events in Greece in 2013 shortly after turning 15, not long after he started competing on the junior tour.[26] He qualified for his first event on the ATP Challenger Tour at the Burnie International in early 2015 while still 16 years old, but lost his only main draw match to Benjamin Mitchell.[27] Tsitsipas won his first Futures title later that year and would go on to win a total of eleven, five in singles and six in doubles, through the end of 2016.[26] He also won his first Challenger match near the end of 2015 in Mohammedia in Morocco.[27] Tsitsipas returned to Morocco a year later and reached his first two Challenger finals in back-to-back weeks at Mohammedia and Casablanca.[28] This success in Africa helped him crack the top 200 later that month.[3] Also towards the end of that month, Tsitsipas was granted a qualifying wild card into the Swiss Indoors in Basel, his first ATP World Tour appearance. He defeated Rajeev Ram in the opening round, but was unable to qualify.[29]

Tsitsipas played in his first ATP main draw at the 2017 Rotterdam Open, where he lost his debut match to the eventual champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.[30] He also made his Grand Slam debut later that year as a qualifier at the French Open, but lost to Ivo Karlović.[31] After losing in qualifying at the US Open, Tsitsipas won his first Challenger title in Genoa.[32] Overall, he did qualify for a tour-best eight events during the season, including Wimbledon and the Shanghai Masters.[31] However, he did not win a tour-level match until the very end of the season when he defeated fellow Next Gen player Karen Khachanov in Shanghai.[33] At the European Open in Belgium the following week, Tsitsipas reached his first ATP semifinal as a qualifier. During the event, he upset hometown favorite and world No. 10 David Goffin for his first career top 10 victory.[33] This run put Tsitsipas in the top 100 of the ATP rankings at the age of 19 and gave him a high enough ranking to be named an alternate for the Next Gen ATP Finals.[34][35] He also became the first Greek player to be ranked in the top 100 of the ATP rankings.[36] Tsitsipas closed out the season with another Challenger final, this time in Brest.[37]

2018: Breakthrough, Masters final, Next Gen Finals champion

Tsitsipas playing at the 2018 Washington Open

Tsitsipas started the year at the Qatar Open where he lost in the quarterfinals to world No. 5 Dominic Thiem, again as a qualifier.[38] After losing in the opening round in his Australian Open debut, his best result in the rest of the early-year hard court season was another quarterfinal at the Dubai Tennis Championships.[39][40] Tsitsipas's first breakthrough of the year came at the Barcelona Open during the clay court season, where he reached his first career ATP final without dropping a set. During the ATP 500 Series tournament, he defeated three top 20 players including No. 7 Thiem, before losing to world No. 1 Rafael Nadal in a lopsided match. With this result, Tsitsipas moved into the top 50 and became the second Greek to reach an ATP final after Nicky Kalogeropoulos in 1973.[41] His performance also gained national attention in Greece, where tennis is still not a widely popular sport.[42][5] The following week at the Estoril Open, he reached another semifinal and picked up a third career top ten victory over No. 8 Kevin Anderson.[43]

Tsitsipas closed out the clay court season by winning his first career Grand Slam match at the French Open against Carlos Taberner before losing to Thiem, the eventual runner-up.[4] He played the next Grand Slam at Wimbledon seeded for first time at No. 31. He took advantage of the seed and produced his best result at a major tournament, a fourth round loss to No. 10 John Isner.[44][45] Tsitsipas had his second big breakthrough of the year in the lead up to the US Open. After reaching the semifinals in Washington,[46] he reached his second final of the season and first career Masters final at the Canadian Open. During the tournament, he became the youngest player to record four top ten wins in a single event, defeating No. 8 Thiem, No. 10 Novak Djokovic, No. 3 Alexander Zverev and No. 6 Anderson in succession. He also saved match points in the latter two matches.[47][48] Tsitsipas lost the final to Nadal on his 20th birthday, but in a closer match than their first encounter. He also climbed to No. 15 in the world.[48][49]

At the US Open, Tsitsipas made his main draw debut, but was upset in the second round by fellow Next Gen player Daniil Medvedev.[50] He cited fatigue as a factor in the loss and proceeded to exit before the quarterfinals at three of his next four tournaments as well.[51][52] However, Tsitsipas was able to recover at the Stockholm Open. Playing as the third seed, he defeated second seed and No. 14 Fabio Fognini in the semifinals before winning in the final against veteran qualifier Ernests Gulbis. With the victory, he became the first Greek player to win an ATP title.[53] Tsitsipas closed out his season at the Next Gen ATP Finals. He was the top seed at the event and was drawn with Frances Tiafoe, Hubert Hurkacz and Jaume Munar. Tsitsipas swept his group and defeated Andrey Rublev to advance to the final against second seed Alex de Minaur.[54][55] He defeated de Minaur in four sets to win the Next Gen Finals.[56] At the end of the year, Tsitsipas was named the ATP Most Improved Player for his breakthrough season.[57]

Playing style

Tsitsipas serving

Tsitsipas is an aggressive baseliner. He aims to hit powerful groundstroke winners, and has a particularly strong forehand using an eastern grip. He also has a big serve and can go to the net more often than typical baseline players.[58] One of his weaknesses is to overhit and make unforced errors while trying to hit winners.[59][60]

Tsitsipas's signature shot is his one-handed backhand, a rarity in modern tennis. He experimented with both one-handed and two-handed backhands in his youth, but chose to go with the former at around eight years old because both of his parents as well as his idol Roger Federer all use a one-handed backhand, and also because it felt more natural. His favorite shot is the backhand down-the-line.[61][62]

Tsitsipas is regarded as having an all-court game.[63][19][58] His favorite surface is grass and Wimbledon is his favorite tournament.[64] He also excels on clay, having grown up playing on that surface in Greece. Tsitsipas has said, "I feel very confident when I step on the dirt. I always show my best tennis on this surface."[13] Through August 2018, hard courts have been Tsitsipas's worst surface by match record.[65] However, he was able to reach a Masters final on this surface.[48]

Former British No. 1 players Greg Rusedski and Annabel Croft have both praised Tsitsipas's on-court demeanor in conjunction with his style of play. Rusedski in particular has said that "[Tsitsipas] reminds me a little bit of Bjorn Borg. He does all the right things, he is spectacular as a tennis player and was just sensational with the way he was so calm and composed and he didn't blink when it came to the crunch. He has the competitive nature of Andy Murray, but he also has a calmness which reminds me of Roger Federer."[66]

Personal life

Tsitsipas studied at an English-language school as a kid. He can speak English, Greek, and Russian.[10] He is a supporter of Greek football team AEK Athens.[67]

Tsitsipas credits his mother's twin sister, who was also a professional tennis player that represented the Soviet Union, for helping with the family's finances so that he could afford to travel with his father to train and compete during his junior career.[5][68] His maternal grandfather Sergei Salnikov was an Olympic gold medal-winning member of the Soviet national football team and a former manager of FC Spartak Moscow.[4][6]

Tsitsipas nearly drowned while swimming at sea on an off-day at a Futures tournament in Heraklion, Crete. After a current carried him away from the shore, his father noticed what had happened and helped save his life. He attributes his confident approach of "[feeling] absolutely zero fear on the court" to the perspective he gained from this experience.[13]

Tsitsipas has expressed interest in promoting the sport of tennis in Greece, where he has said "tennis is not very popular."[5] After his finals appearance at the 2018 Barcelona Open, he commented that his success was helping him achieve this goal. Of his performance and the attention it received, he stated, "Many people were talking about [the final] and I had plenty of interviews that I did on big channels in Greece for big media centres. It got people's attention... It makes me motivated to do even better in the future, and become even more popular... I hope to inspire more people to play tennis in Greece."[42]

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–1)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–1)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (0–2)
Indoors (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Apr 2018 Barcelona Open, Spain 500 Series Clay Spain Rafael Nadal 2–6, 1–6
Loss 0–2 Aug 2018 Canadian Open, Canada Masters 1000 Hard Spain Rafael Nadal 2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win 1–2 Oct 2018 Stockholm Open, Sweden 250 Series Hard (i) Latvia Ernests Gulbis 6–4, 6–4

Next Gen Finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result    Date    Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 2018 Next Generation ATP Finals, Italy Hard (i) Australia Alex de Minaur 2–4, 4–1, 4–3(7–3), 4–3(7–3)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Legend
ATP Challengers (1–3)
ITF Futures (5–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–2)
Clay (4–3)
Grass (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Nov 2015 Heraklion F9, Greece Futures Hard Canada Steven Diez 2–6, 0–6
Win 1–1 Nov 2015 Nicosia F1, Cyprus Futures Hard Belgium Alexandre Folie 2–6, 6–4, 6–2
Win 2–1 Apr 2016 Santa Margherita di Pula F6, Italy Futures Clay Italy Erik Crepaldi 6–3, 6–1
Win 3–1 May 2016 Santa Margherita di Pula F10, Italy Futures Clay Norway Casper Ruud 6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–2)
Win 4–1 May 2016 Lecco F12, Italy Futures Clay Italy Marco Bortolotti 7–6(10–8), 7–6(7–3)
Loss 4–2 Jul 2016 Kramsach F2, Austria Futures Clay Germany Yannick Hanfmann 4–6, 4–6
Win 5–2 Oct 2016 Oliveira de Azemeis F11, Portugal Futures Hard Belgium Yannick Mertens 6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Loss 5–3 Oct 2016 Mohammedia Challenger, Morocco Challenger Clay Austria Gerald Melzer 6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Loss 5–4 Oct 2016 Casablanca II Challenger, Morocco Challenger Clay France Maxime Janvier 4–6, 0–6
Win 6–4 Sep 2017 Genoa Challenger, Italy Challenger Clay Spain Guillermo García López 7–5, 7–6(7–2)
Loss 6–5 Oct 2017 Brest Challenger, France Challenger Hard France Corentin Moutet 2–6, 6–7(8–10)

Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Legend
ATP Challengers (0–1)
ITF Futures (6–2)
Finals by surface
Hard (6–1)
Clay (0–2)
Grass (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 May 2015 Heraklion F6, Greece Futures Hard Greece Alexandros Jakupovic Serbia Danilo Petrović
Serbia Ilija Vučić 		6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
Win 2–0 Nov 2015 Heraklion F10, Greece Futures Hard Greece Konstantinos Economidis Bulgaria Alexander Lazov
Czech Republic Dominik Süč 		6–2, 6–2
Win 3–0 Nov 2015 Heraklion F11, Greece Futures Hard Greece Konstantinos Economidis United States Alexander Centenari
Germany Sami Reinwein 		w/o
Win 4–0 Apr 2016 Heraklion F2, Greece Futures Hard Greece Konstantinos Economidis Czech Republic Petr Michnev
Czech Republic Vaclav Safranek 		4–6, 7–6(8–6), [10–5]
Win 5–0 Apr 2016 Heraklion F6, Greece Futures Hard Greece Konstantinos Economidis United States Srinayan Nuvvala
Brazil Bruno Savi 		7–6(7–5), 6–7(6–8), [13–11]
Loss 5–1 May 2016 Santa Margherita di Pula F10, Italy Futures Clay Greece Petros Tsitsipas Argentina Franco Agamenone
Argentina Mateo Nicolás Martínez 		2–6, 2–6
Win 6–1 Sep 2016 Calgary F6, Canada Futures Hard Netherlands Tim van Rijthoven Mexico Hans Hach Verdugo
New Zealand Jose Statham 		6–4, 2–6, [13–11]
Loss 6–2 Oct 2016 Oliveira de Azemeis F11, Portugal Futures Hard Italy Lorenzo Frigerio Portugal Nuno Deus
Portugal João Domingues 		6–7(7–9), 1–6
Loss 6–3 Jul 2017 The Hague Open, Netherlands Challenger Clay Slovakia Jozef Kovalík Belgium Sander Gillé
Belgium Joran Vliegen 		2–6, 6–4, [10–12]

Source: ITF player profile[26]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponent Score
Win 2016 Wimbledon Grass Estonia Kenneth Raisma Canada Félix Auger-Aliassime
Canada Denis Shapovalov 		4–6, 6–4, 6–2

Singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2018 Rolex Paris Masters.[52]

Tournament 2016 2017 2018 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A Q2 1R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
French Open A 1R 2R 0 / 2 1–2 33%
Wimbledon A 1R 4R 0 / 2 3–2 60%
US Open A Q3 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Win–Loss 0–0 0–2 5–4 0 / 6 5–6 45%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters A A 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Miami Open A A 1R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Monte-Carlo Masters A A 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Madrid Open A A 1R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Italian Open A A 2R 0 / 1 1–1 50%
Canadian Open A A F 0 / 1 5–1 83%
Cincinnati Masters A A 1R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Shanghai Masters A 2R 3R 0 / 2 3–2 60%
Paris Masters A A 2R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Win–Loss 0–0 1–1 10–9 0 / 10 11–10 52%
Career statistics
Tournaments 0 10 28 38
Titles 0 0 1 1
Finals 0 0 3 3
Overall Win–Loss 0–0 4–10 41–27 45–37
Year-end ranking 210 91 15 55%

Grand Slam seedings

Year Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open
2017 Did not qualify Qualified Qualified Did not qualify
2018 Not seeded Not seeded 31st 15th

Record against top 10 players

Tsitsipas' match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered.

Opponent Highest
ranking		 Matches Won Lost Win % Last match Ref.
Serbia Novak Djokovic 1 1 1 0 100% Won (6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3) at 2018 Toronto 3R [69]
Spain Rafael Nadal 1 2 0 2 0% Lost (2–6, 6–7(4–7)) at 2018 Toronto F [70]
Germany Alexander Zverev 3 2 1 1 50% Won (3–6, 7–6(13–11), 6–4) at 2018 Toronto QF [71]
Croatia Marin Čilić 3 1 0 1 0% Lost (3–6, 2–6) at 2017 Tokyo 1R [72]
Argentina Juan Martín del Potro 3 1 0 1 0% Lost (5–7, 3–6) at 2018 Rome 2R [73]
Austria Dominic Thiem 4 5 2 3 40% Won (6–3, 7–6(8–6)) at 2018 Toronto 2R [74]
Japan Kei Nishikori 4 1 0 1 0% Lost (3–6, 3–6) at 2018 Tokyo QF [75]
Spain Tommy Robredo 5 1 1 0 100% Won (6–3, 7–6(7–1), 6–4) at 2018 US Open 1R [76]
South Africa Kevin Anderson 5 3 2 1 67% Lost (4–6, 6–7(1–7)) at 2018 Shanghai 3R [77]
France Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 5 1 0 1 0% Lost (4–6, 6–7(2–7)) at 2017 Rotterdam 1R [78]
France Gaël Monfils 6 1 1 0 100% Won (7–6(7–4), 4–6, 6–4) at 2018 Shanghai 1R [79]
Belgium David Goffin 7 4 2 2 50% Lost (5–7, 3–6) at 2018 Cincinnati 1R [80]
France Richard Gasquet 7 2 1 1 50% Lost (6–7(2–7), 6–7(4–7)) at 2018 Rosmalen QF [81]
Russia Mikhail Youzhny 8 1 0 1 0% Lost (1–6, 6–4, 5–7) at 2017 Marseille 1R [82]
United States John Isner 8 2 0 2 0% Lost (4–6, 6–7(8–10), 6–7(4–7)) at 2018 Wimbledon 4R [83]
Spain Pablo Carreño Busta 10 1 1 0 100% Won (7–5, 6–3) at 2018 Barcelona SF [84]
Latvia Ernests Gulbis 10 1 1 0 100% Won (6–4, 6–4) at 2018 Stockholm F [85]
France Lucas Pouille 10 1 1 0 100% Won (6–2, 7–6(7–3)) at 2018 Halle 1R [86]
Total 31 14 17 45% * Statistics correct as of 21 October 2018

Wins over top 10 players

  • Tsitsipas has a 7–11 (.412) record against players who were ranked in the top 10 at the time the match was played.[65]
Season 2016 2017 2018 Total
Wins 0 1 6 7
No. Opponent Rank Event Surface Rd Score Tsitsipas
Rank 		Ref.
2017
1. Belgium David Goffin 10 European Open, Antwerp, Belgium Hard (i) QF 2–6, 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–4) 122 [33]
2018
2. Austria Dominic Thiem 7 Barcelona Open, Spain Clay QF 6–3, 6–2 63 [41]
3. South Africa Kevin Anderson 8 Estoril Open, Portugal Clay 2R 6–7(3–7), 6–3, 6–3 44 [43]
4. Austria Dominic Thiem 8 Canadian Open, Toronto, Canada Hard 2R 6–3, 7–6(8–6) 27 [48]
5. Serbia Novak Djokovic 10 Canadian Open, Toronto, Canada Hard 3R 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–3 27 [48]
6. Germany Alexander Zverev 3 Canadian Open, Toronto, Canada Hard QF 3–6, 7–6(13–11), 6–4 27 [48]
7. South Africa Kevin Anderson 6 Canadian Open, Toronto, Canada Hard SF 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–6(9–7) 27 [48]

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