Tsitsipas: For the second time without a father at a tournament

Stefanos Tsitsipas will start his commitments on Tuesday (02/08) at the 500 tournament of Rotterdam against the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovic Fokina, with the peculiarity that he will not have it with his father and coach Apostolos Tsitsipas, who did not Netherlands.

The world No. 4 trained with Thomas Inquist, whom he knows well from the Laver Cup, where the Swede performs the duties of vice-captain of the European team, but also the duties of a coach.

This is the second time Stefanos and Apostolos Tsitsipas have not played in a tour tournament together, most recently at the Rome Masters in September 2020, with Stefanos Tsitsipas suffering a loss in his first match (2nd round).

Tsitsipas had bowed out of the 1st round of Rome and then fell to then world No. 81 Yannick Sinner, against whom he suffered a 6-1, 6-7 (9), 6-2 loss, and stayed out of tournaments.

It remains to be seen how Tsitsipas will manage this absence for the 2nd time in his career, whether he will manage to get the 1st win without his father by his side, but also whether he will be able to claim the win break “curse”. “In the 500v500 tournaments who want him to count 7 losses in an equal number of finals…

SOURCE: Tennis24