Stefanos Tsitsipas’s possible path to the Miami Open 2024 Finals.
Against Jiri Lehecka in the Indian Wells 2024 fourth round, Stefanos Tsitsipas unexpectedly lost. The Europeans will, nevertheless, move over the setback and focus on improving at the Miami Open in 2024.
In all likelihood, Stefanos will make it to the tournament’s fourth round with relative ease. Tsitsipas, who is ranked tenth, will face the winners of Denis Shapovalov and Luciano Darderi in the second round after earning a first-round bye. He will almost certainly face Alexander Bublik in the third round later.
The former World No. 3 may find things difficult starting in the fourth round of the competition when he squares off against Andrey Rublev. The “Greek God” would mostly have to face Jannik Sinner, the player with the best season-long record, if he could overcome the Russian in the fourth round.
Tsitsipas will almost certainly have to play Carlos Alcaraz, the champion of Indian Wells 2024, in the final after an unlikely victory over Sinner. He may also play Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals.
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Tsitsipas: A player’s destiny involves more misery than glory
Following his fourth-round loss to Taylor Fritz at the Australian Open on Sunday, Stefanos Tsitsipas said he is taking the larger picture into consideration. He is clearly defeated, but not discouraged.
If Alex de Minaur defeats Andrey Rublev on Sunday night, the Greek would fall out of the Top 10 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings for the first time since February 2019. The Greek was not at his best during his four-set loss to the Americans.
It’s not a bad sensation. “There’s a continuous sense of progress and change,” Tsitsipas remarked during the press conference following the game. “Change is never static. You have to keep working and allowing yourself to grow from these experiences. You should also allow yourself to sort of look for all these moments that have been working for you over the past few years and keep trying. One day you might be in the Top 10, and the next day you might not be.
There aren’t many glorious moments, and it hurts. Simply put, there are many more difficult and painful times in your career—struggles, agony, and all that—than there are triumphant and successful ones. These represent a very small portion of a tennis player’s yearly experiences.
Fritz achieved his first Top 10 victory at a major after hitting 13 aces and winning 86% of his first-serve points. Fritz’s strong serve and forehand helped to shorten the points, frustrating Tsitsipas, who made it to the final in Melbourne the previous year, by not forcing the American into long rallies.
I just wish I could organize protests, make arguments, and sort of figure out through rallies and exchanges what works best for me. Something confused me a little bit. It was just a serve or a spectacular return, so there wasn’t much for me to mentally prepare for and visualize during the match. That was the nature of the match.
Instead of just sort of defending my way through, I wish I could find a way to get into those rallies more and kind of get the momentum moving by winning rallies.
Against players ranked in the top 20, Tsitsipas has now dropped his last five games. He finishes the season with a 4-2 record when he departs Australia.
Tsitsipas was unable to get past the quarterfinals in tour-level competitions held in Miami, Indian Wells, and Rotterdam last year. In the upcoming months, he will have a chance to move up the Pepperstone ATP Rankings since he will have fewer points to defend.
