Australian Open 2024: Tsitsipas views his departure as an opportunity to grow
The 25-year-old made it to the final four in 2019 and fell in the third round the following year.
However, he went on to make two more trips to the semifinals until falling to 10-time champion Novak Djokovic in the championship match of the previous year.
During the 2024 Australian Open at Melbourne Park, Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece celebrates a point against Taylor Fritz of the United States in the round-four singles match. Photo Credit: Getty Images
Stefanos Tsitsipas, who lost to Taylor Fritz in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday, expressed his desire to bounce back from the Greek player’s first-ever elimination at the Melbourne Park Grand Slam in four years.
The 25-year-old made it to the final four in 2019 and fell in the third round the following year. However, he went on to make two more trips to the semifinals until falling to 10-time champion Novak Djokovic in the championship match of the previous year.
Tsitsipas stated that he will require many days to think things through and get over his 7-6(3) 5-7 6-3 6-3 loss.
“It’s not a bad sensation,” he said to the press. It’s a continuous sense of evolution and change. There is always going to be change. You may be in the top 10 one day and out of it the next.
Therefore, you must continue working and enabling yourself to grow from these experiences. You must also allow yourself to look at all of the times that have worked for you over the past few years and keep trying.
The Grand Slam winner, Tsitsipas, acknowledged that overcoming obstacles was a necessary part of the work.
He went on, “There are a lot more difficult and unpleasant times in your career—struggles and all—than there are moments of glory and accomplishment and popping champagne corks.”
