Stefanos Tsitsipas
![]() Tsitsipas at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships | |
Country (sports) | ![]() |
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Residence | Athens, Greece |
Born | Athens, Greece | 12 August 1998
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)[1] |
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[2], 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.[3][4][5][6] 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'[7] 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)
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Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 1. | 1 November 2015 | Heraklion, Greece | Hard | ![]() |
2–6, 0–6 |
Win | 1. | 22 November 2015 | Nicosia, Cyprus | Hard | ![]() |
2–6, 6–4, 6–2 |
Win | 2. | 16 April 2016 | Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–1 |
Win | 3. | 14 May 2016 | Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–2) |
Win | 4. | 28 May 2016 | Lecco, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
7–6(10–8), 7–6(7–3) |
Loss | 2. | 16 July 2016 | Kramsach, Austria | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 4–6 |
Win | 5. | 2 October 2016 | Oliveira de Azemeis, Portugal | Hard | ![]() |
6–3, 4–6, 6–2 |
Loss | 3. | 8 October 2016 | Mohammedia, Morocco | Clay | ![]() |
6–3, 3–6, 2–6 |
Loss | 4. | 15 October 2016 | Casablanca, Morocco | Clay | ![]() |
4–6, 0–6 |
Win | 6. | 10 September 2017 | Genoa, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
7–5, 7–6(7–2) |
Loss | 5. | 29 October 2017 | Brest, France | Hard | ![]() |
2–6, 6–7(8–10) |
Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runners-up)
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Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1. | 2 May 2015 | Heraklion, Greece | Hard | ![]() |
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6–3, 3–6, [10–7] |
Win | 2. | 7 November 2015 | Heraklion, Greece | Hard | ![]() |
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6–2, 6–2 |
Win | 3. | 14 November 2015 | Heraklion, Greece | Hard | ![]() |
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w/o |
Win | 4. | 2 April 2016 | Heraklion, Greece | Hard | ![]() |
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4–6, 7–6(8–6), [10–5] |
Win | 5. | 30 April 2016 | Heraklion, Greece | Hard | ![]() |
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7–6(7–5), 6–7(6–8), [13–11] |
Loss | 1. | 13 May 2016 | Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy | Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 2–6 |
Loss | 2. | 13 May 2016 | Oliveira de Azemeis, Portugal | Hard | ![]() |
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6–7(7–9), 1–6 |
Win | 6. | 2 September 2016 | Calgary, Canada | Hard | ![]() |
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6–4, 2–6, [13–11] |
Loss | 3. | 23 July 2017 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | Clay | ![]() |
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2–6, 6–4, [10–12] |
Junior Grand Slam
Boys' Doubles
Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 2016 | Wimbledon | Grass | ![]() |
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4–6, 6–4, 6–2 |
Senior career
Singles performance timeline
Current through the 2018 Monte-Carlo Masters.
Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | W–L | |
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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. [8]
Season | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Total |
Wins | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
No. | Opponent | Rank | Event | Surface | Rd | Score | Tsitsipas Rank |
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2017 | |||||||
1. | ![]() |
10 | Antwerp, Belgium | Hard (i) | QF | 2–6, 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–4) [9] | 122 |
2018 | |||||||
2. | ![]() |
7 | Barcelona, Spain | Clay | QF | 6–3, 6–2 | 63 |
References
- ^ ATP Rankings
- ^ http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/stefanos-tsitsipas/te51/overview
- ^ http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/tennis/article4483594.html
- ^ http://www.spaziotennis.com/2015/03/salnikova-julia-intervista-tsisipas-stefanos/
- ^ http://www.tennis-russia.ru/encyclopedia/a/189
- ^ http://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/7384
- ^ http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/tournaments/grade-a-events/overview.aspx
- ^ http://www.statennis.info/players/stefanos-tsitsipas
- ^ http://www.statennis.info/players/stefanos-tsitsipas#top_10
External links
- Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- {{ITF profile}} template using deprecated numeric ID.
- Template:ITF junior profile