Stefanos Tsitsipas

Stefanos Tsitsipas
Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς

Tsitsipas at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Greece
Residence	Athens, Greece
Born	(1998-08-12) 12 August 1998 Athens, Greece
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2016
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$340,493
Singles
Career record	9–18
Career titles	0 1 Challenger, 5 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 63 (23 April 2018)
Current ranking	No. 63 (23 April 2018)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2018)
French Open	1R (2017)
Wimbledon	1R (2017)
US Open	Q3 (2017)
Doubles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0 6 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 315 (24 July 2017)
Current ranking	No. 520 (16 April 2018)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior	2R (2015)
French Open Junior	QF (2016)
Wimbledon Junior	W (2016)
US Open Junior	SF (2015)
Last updated on: 16 April 2018.

Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greek: Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς; Russian: Стефанос Циципас; born 12 August 1998) is a professional tennis player from Greece and the current Greek No. 1. Tsitsipas is a former junior No. 1.

Tsitsipas has a career high ATP singles ranking of 69 achieved on 2 April 2018, which makes him the best Greek male tennis player in the Open Era and the only one to have been ranked in the top 100. On 24 July 2017, he peaked at world number 315 in the ATP doubles rankings. Tsitsipas has won a total of five ITF singles Futures titles as well as six ITF doubles Futures titles so far in his career. His main career highlights include being the junior number 1 in the world. Tsitsipas has also had many successful matches on the junior tour, winning The Boy's Wimbledon doubles event with his partner Kenneth Raisma in 2016.

Tsitsipas is the son of a Greek father, Apostolos Tsitsipas and a Russian mother, former pro-tennis player Julia Apostoli. His grandfather, Sergei Salnikov, was a Soviet football player and manager.

Tennis career

2013–2015: Two Orange Bowl finals

Stefanos was a finalist at the Orange Bowl in both 2014 and 2015 losing to Stefan Kozlov and Miomir Kecmanović, respectively.

2016: Junior Wimbledon doubles title, junior No. 1 and turning pro

Tsitsipas is a former world number one junior tennis player. His junior highlights include winning the Trofeo Bonfiglio, a 'Grade A' event in Milan, Italy. He is the winner of the Boys' Doubles at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships together with Kenneth Raisma, thus becoming the second male Greek tennis player to win a Grand Slam title at any division and the first one in the Open Era, with the first male Greek tennis player in history to win a Grand Slam title being Nicky Kalogeropoulos, the winner of the 1963 Roland Garros and Wimbledon boys' singles tournaments.

2017: Grand Slam debut, first Challenger title and Top 100

He made his Grand Slam debut at the French Open where he beat Thomas Fabbiano, Gleb Sakharov and Oscar Otte to qualify for the main draw, where he lost to Ivo Karlovic in straight sets. He repeated this achievement at Wimbledon as he beat Santiago Giraldo, Yannick Hanfmann and Joris De Loore to join the main draw, only to lose to Dušan Lajović in straight sets once again.In the 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals, he qualified for the finals as an alternate.

Career finals

ATP Challengers and ITF Futures

Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runners-up)

Legend ATP Challengers (1–3) ITF Futures (5–2)

Titles by Surface Hard (2–2) Clay (4–3) Grass (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	1 November 2015	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Steven Diez	2–6, 0–6
Win	1.	22 November 2015	Nicosia, Cyprus	Hard	Alexandre Folie	2–6, 6–4, 6–2
Win	2.	16 April 2016	Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy	Clay	Erik Crepaldi	6–3, 6–1
Win	3.	14 May 2016	Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy	Clay	Casper Ruud	6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–2)
Win	4.	28 May 2016	Lecco, Italy	Clay	Marco Bortolotti	7–6(10–8), 7–6(7–3)
Loss	2.	16 July 2016	Kramsach, Austria	Clay	Yannick Hanfmann	4–6, 4–6
Win	5.	2 October 2016	Oliveira de Azemeis, Portugal	Hard	Yannick Mertens	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Loss	3.	8 October 2016	Mohammedia, Morocco	Clay	Gerald Melzer	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	4.	15 October 2016	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Maxime Janvier	4–6, 0–6
Win	6.	10 September 2017	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Guillermo García López	7–5, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	5.	29 October 2017	Brest, France	Hard	Corentin Moutet	2–6, 6–7(8–10)

Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runners-up)

Legend ATP Challengers (0–1) ITF Futures (6–2)

Titles by Surface Hard (6–1) Clay (0–2) Grass (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	2 May 2015	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Alexandros Jakupovic	Danilo Petrović Ilija Vučić	6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
Win	2.	7 November 2015	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Konstantinos Economidis	Alexander Lazov Dominik Süč	6–2, 6–2
Win	3.	14 November 2015	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Konstantinos Economidis	Alexander Centenari Sami Reinwein	w/o
Win	4.	2 April 2016	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Konstantinos Economidis	Petr Michnev Vaclav Safranek	4–6, 7–6(8–6), [10–5]
Win	5.	30 April 2016	Heraklion, Greece	Hard	Konstantinos Economidis	Srinayan Nuvvala Bruno Savi	7–6(7–5), 6–7(6–8), [13–11]
Loss	1.	13 May 2016	Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy	Clay	Petros Tsitsipas	Franco Agamenone Mateo Nicolás Martínez	2–6, 2–6
Loss	2.	13 May 2016	Oliveira de Azemeis, Portugal	Hard	Lorenzo Frigerio	Nuno Deus João Domingues	6–7(7–9), 1–6
Win	6.	2 September 2016	Calgary, Canada	Hard	Tim van Rijthoven	Hans Hach Verdugo Jose Statham	6–4, 2–6, [13–11]
Loss	3.	23 July 2017	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Clay	Jozef Kovalík	Sander Gillé Joran Vliegen	2–6, 6–4, [10–12]

Junior Grand Slam

Boys' Doubles

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

Senior career

Singles performance timeline

Current through the 2018 Monte-Carlo Masters.

Tournament	2017	2018	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	Q2	1R	0–1
French Open	1R		0–1
Wimbledon	1R		0–1
US Open	Q3		0–0
Win–Loss	0–2	0–1	0–3
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	2R	1–1
Miami Open	A	1R	0–1
Monte-Carlo Masters	A	2R	1–1
Madrid Open	A		0–0
Italian Open	A		0–0
Canadian Open	A		0–0
Cincinnati Masters	A		0–0
Shanghai Masters	2R		1–1
Paris Masters	A		0–0
Win–Loss	1–1	2–3	3–4
Career statistics
Tournaments	10	8	18
Overall Win–Loss	4–10	5–8	9–18
Year-end ranking	91

Wins over top-10 opponents

As of April 26 2018, Tsitsipas is 2-3 against Top 10 players.

Season	2016	2017	2018	Total
Wins	0	1	1	2

No.	Opponent	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	Tsitsipas Rank
2017
1.	David Goffin	10	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard (i)	QF	2–6, 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–4)	122
2018
2.	Dominic Thiem	7	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	QF	6–3, 6–2	63

External links

• Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Template:ITF junior profile