Stefanos Tsitsipas is a talented Greek tennis player. The first Greek who managed to get into the top 100, and then into the top ten of the world ranking of tennis players. He was the first racket of the world among juniors.
Biography
The future tennis player was born in August 1998 on the twelfth in the Greek capital Athens. The boy was born into the family of the Soviet tennis player Julia Salnikova and the Greek Apostolos Tsitsipas. Stefanos decided to follow in the footsteps of the famous mother and went in for tennis. The talented guy quickly got in good shape and began to win victories in regional competitions one after another.
In 2014, he first participated in an international tournament. On the Orange bowl, which is held annually in the USA, he reached the finals, but lost to the American athlete Stefan Kozlov. The following year, he again reached the final and lost to Miomir Ketsmanovic, tennis player from Serbia.
Career
On a professional level, Stefanos made his debut in 2016. The following year, he first reached the level of the Grand Slam, having qualified for the “Roland Garos” and “Wimbledon”, but in both tournaments he retired in the very first matches.
In 2018, he managed to get to the fourth round of the competition in Wimbledon. Quite easily going through three stages, lost in one eighth to the ambitious John Isner. August of that year brought Tsitsipas several sensational victories. At the tournament in Toronto, which was held under the auspices of the “ATP Masters”, he managed to beat Kevin Anderson, Alexander Zverev and the legendary Serb Novak Djokovic. Having reached the final of the tournament, the athlete missed the victory in two sets in the match with Rafael Nadal. Despite this, he first made his way into the top twenty athletes according to the association of professional tennis players, taking the sixteenth place in the rating.
In the same year, he took part in the US Open, but dropped out in the second round, losing the match to Russian athlete Daniil Medvedev.
Today, Stefanos Tsitsipas is one of the most talented and promising tennis players in the world. His career still does not shine with great victories and results, but as of April 2019, he already takes eighth place in the ATP ranking. At an open tournament in Australia, he reached the semifinals, where in a bitter struggle he lost to his more eminent rival Rafael Nadal.
