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  • The tennis career of Stefanos Tsitsipas

    From Kalevi Kolttonen@3:633/10 to All on Monday, March 23, 2026 14:15:23
    Hello!

    The tennis career of Stefanos Tsitsipas is looking
    quite bad at the moment. His ranking has dipped to
    #51. He did manage to beat Alex De Minaur, but lost
    6-0 6-1 to Arthur Fils. I did not see his loss, but
    judging by the rough score, it must have been awful.

    I wonder whether he will ever reach a Gran Slam
    singles final again. It looks pretty bad. Will
    Tsitsipas become like Dominic Thiem who never
    recovered from his injuries?

    br,
    KK

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  • From Scall5@3:633/10 to All on Monday, March 23, 2026 19:01:21
    On 3/23/2026 9:15 AM, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
    Hello!

    The tennis career of Stefanos Tsitsipas is looking
    quite bad at the moment. His ranking has dipped to
    #51. He did manage to beat Alex De Minaur, but lost
    6-0 6-1 to Arthur Fils. I did not see his loss, but
    judging by the rough score, it must have been awful.

    I wonder whether he will ever reach a Gran Slam
    singles final again. It looks pretty bad. Will
    Tsitsipas become like Dominic Thiem who never
    recovered from his injuries?

    br,
    KK

    Fils did say, afterwards, that he played the match of his life. For what
    that is worth worth analyzing Tsitsipas current form.
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    Scall5

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 13:02:42
    Scall5 <nospam@home.net> wrote:
    Fils did say, afterwards, that he played the match of his life. For what that is worth worth analyzing Tsitsipas current form.

    I bet he played a perfect match, but Tsitsipas's performances
    have been pretty bad lately. But he did beat Alex De Minaur
    in the round before his defeat.

    Let's see how he manages the transition to clay.

    br,
    KK

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  • From Sawfish@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 09:52:41
    On 3/24/26 6:02 AM, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
    Scall5 <nospam@home.net> wrote:
    Fils did say, afterwards, that he played the match of his life. For what
    that is worth worth analyzing Tsitsipas current form.

    I bet he played a perfect match, but Tsitsipas's performances
    have been pretty bad lately. But he did beat Alex De Minaur
    in the round before his defeat.

    Let's see how he manages the transition to clay.

    br,
    KK

    Tsitsipas' story is one of the saddest in tennis I've ever witnessed.

    It was as if choking away the match to Djokovich at Wimbledon in 2921,
    then underscoring this chokey-ness at the AO final in 2023 took it all
    out of him.

    Plus, the tour players figured out how best to get to his BH--an
    aesthetically pleasing, but inconsistent, shot.

    Basically, he's done.

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