Stefanos Tsitsipas Should Take Jannik Sinner's Success Personally

[Lozo1016]

I have to imagine Stefanos Tsitsipas is steamed over Jannik Sinner's rise. Jannik is 3 years younger than Stefanos, but he already has 3 slams while Stefanos has 0. Even more than that, none of the active members on tour have given Sinner more problems than Tsitsipas. Among players who have faced Sinner at least 5 times, Tsitsipas holds the best record against him (6-3). Who was the last player to beat Jannik at the Australian Open? Stefanos Tsitsipas. Prior to that, who was the last player to beat Jannik at the Australian Open? Also Stefanos Tsitsipas. Sinner is 21-2 in his last 23 matches at the AO and those 2 losses were both to Tsitsipas.

Stefanos clearly has a matchup issue with Djokovic and Alcaraz. He is 2-12 against Novak and 0-6 against Carlos. I'm not sure he believes he can beat those guys at this point. However, I'm sure he believes he can beat Sinner because he has done it frequently. If a slam draw opened up and he could see Jannik in a SF (like he did at Barcelona in 2021 or Monte Carlo in 2024) or F, he might have a better chance against him than he does when he's beating his head against the wall vs Novak or Carlos.

But that doesn't do any good when he can barely get to the 3rd or 4th round at slams anymore. Why is he getting bounced in the 1st round of the slam that has seen his greatest success? Wake up, dude. It's time for you to make your mark on this sport!

 

[dking68]

Sinner is a much better player than Tsitsipas. I do remember when he lost to him at AO 22' and 23' and I predicted he would surpass him by the end of 23'. This proved to be right. He does everything better. Better mentality, backhand, serve, forehand, everything. Sinner also aims to improve day in day out, tsitsipas has stagnated, well declined since 23'. I do think Sinner 25' gives a ass whooping to the philosopher in 22' and 23'.

 

[Jonas78]

NextGen used to blame Big3 for not winning slams. Carlo & Sinner are showing them that the end of Big3 didnt help. They just arent good enough, and they never were.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Why? Tsitsipas is not good.

 

[Daniel Andrade]

If they meet again in slams Sinner will be ready to have a say about that

 

[Aabye5]

I have to imagine Stefanos Tsitsipas is steamed over Jannik Sinner's rise. Jannik is 3 years younger than Stefanos, but he already has 3 slams while Stefanos has 0. Even more than that, none of the active members on tour have given Sinner more problems than Tsitsipas. Among players who have faced Sinner at least 5 times, Tsitsipas holds the best record against him (6-3). Who was the last player to beat Jannik at the Australian Open? Stefanos Tsitsipas. Prior to that, who was the last player to beat Jannik at the Australian Open? Also Stefanos Tsitsipas. Sinner is 21-2 in his last 23 matches at the AO and those 2 losses were both to Tsitsipas.

Stefanos clearly has a matchup issue with Djokovic and Alcaraz. He is 2-12 against Novak and 0-6 against Carlos. I'm not sure he believes he can beat those guys at this point. However, I'm sure he believes he can beat Sinner because he has done it frequently. If a slam draw opened up and he could see Jannik in a SF (like he did at Barcelona in 2021 or Monte Carlo in 2024) or F, he might have a better chance against him than he does when he's beating his head against the wall vs Novak or Carlos.

But that doesn't do any good when he can barely get to the 3rd or 4th round at slams anymore. Why is he getting bounced in the 1st round of the slam that has seen his greatest success? Wake up, dude. It's time for you to make your mark on this sport!

You're right, his game does match up well against Sinner's. But how can Tsitsipas ever defeat Sinner again if he can't get past the first round?

I was really hopefully after seeming some changes in the fall of last year. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to stick. His attitude is also bad, and he seems resigned/ok with staying in the 8-15 range in the rankings.

 

[JMR]

I have to imagine Stefanos Tsitsipas is steamed over Jannik Sinner's rise. Jannik is 3 years younger than Stefanos, but he already has 3 slams while Stefanos has 0. Even more than that, none of the active members on tour have given Sinner more problems than Tsitsipas. Among players who have faced Sinner at least 5 times, Tsitsipas holds the best record against him (6-3).

If Tsitsipas is "steamed" about this situation, then he's a fool and in clear defiance of what should be his personal mantra, "Know thyself." Head-to-head records aren't worth the digital screens on which they briefly flicker to life. Tsitsipas now has fundamental problems with his game that can't be cured by dreaming about a few good matches he's played against the current no. 1.

 

[DSH]

I have to imagine Stefanos Tsitsipas is steamed over Jannik Sinner's rise. Jannik is 3 years younger than Stefanos, but he already has 3 slams while Stefanos has 0. Even more than that, none of the active members on tour have given Sinner more problems than Tsitsipas. Among players who have faced Sinner at least 5 times, Tsitsipas holds the best record against him (6-3). Who was the last player to beat Jannik at the Australian Open? Stefanos Tsitsipas. Prior to that, who was the last player to beat Jannik at the Australian Open? Also Stefanos Tsitsipas. Sinner is 21-2 in his last 23 matches at the AO and those 2 losses were both to Tsitsipas.

Stefanos clearly has a matchup issue with Djokovic and Alcaraz. He is 2-12 against Novak and 0-6 against Carlos. I'm not sure he believes he can beat those guys at this point. However, I'm sure he believes he can beat Sinner because he has done it frequently. If a slam draw opened up and he could see Jannik in a SF (like he did at Barcelona in 2021 or Monte Carlo in 2024) or F, he might have a better chance against him than he does when he's beating his head against the wall vs Novak or Carlos.

But that doesn't do any good when he can barely get to the 3rd or 4th round at slams anymore. Why is he getting bounced in the 1st round of the slam that has seen his greatest success? Wake up, dude. It's time for you to make your mark on this sport!

I hope they meet at Roland Garros in the earliest possible round.
We'll see if Tsitsipas still has the hand to pull off a heavy card there.

 

[Winner Sinner]

The last two matches between them on hard (Rotterdam and Turin 2023) were one-sided.
While in the last semifinal in Monte Carlo we know how Tsitsipas managed to win that match, namely thanks to a sensational oversight by the chair umpire that prevented Sinner from going ahead by two breaks in the third decisive set.
Tsitsipas himself when they faced each other in the recent exhibition said that that day Sinner was the one who deserved the victory.
And we are talking about Monte Carlo which is probably the worst context for Sinner and without the probably the best for the Greek.

Then I agree that in his first years on the circuit it was precisely Tsitsipas who was the player who was the most indigestible to Sinner in terms of matchups after Medvedev.
But now there would be no competition, especially on hard, simply because Sinner has entered a new dimension while Tsitsipas has entered a negative spiral.
It would be a massacre.

 

[nolefam_2024]

I have to imagine Stefanos Tsitsipas is steamed over Jannik Sinner's rise. Jannik is 3 years younger than Stefanos, but he already has 3 slams while Stefanos has 0. Even more than that, none of the active members on tour have given Sinner more problems than Tsitsipas. Among players who have faced Sinner at least 5 times, Tsitsipas holds the best record against him (6-3). Who was the last player to beat Jannik at the Australian Open? Stefanos Tsitsipas. Prior to that, who was the last player to beat Jannik at the Australian Open? Also Stefanos Tsitsipas. Sinner is 21-2 in his last 23 matches at the AO and those 2 losses were both to Tsitsipas.

Stefanos clearly has a matchup issue with Djokovic and Alcaraz. He is 2-12 against Novak and 0-6 against Carlos. I'm not sure he believes he can beat those guys at this point. However, I'm sure he believes he can beat Sinner because he has done it frequently. If a slam draw opened up and he could see Jannik in a SF (like he did at Barcelona in 2021 or Monte Carlo in 2024) or F, he might have a better chance against him than he does when he's beating his head against the wall vs Novak or Carlos.

But that doesn't do any good when he can barely get to the 3rd or 4th round at slams anymore. Why is he getting bounced in the 1st round of the slam that has seen his greatest success? Wake up, dude. It's time for you to make your mark on this sport!

Very obtuse take

Tsitispas wins are all old and last win was in mc where umpire was wrong

There is no world where sinner has any adversary except alcaraz

If I could take things personally and do whatever I would be a Internet coin selling billionaire fraud already. There are many younger than me

In the end you need ability and mental is almost irrelevant

 

[BallisticMissileFonseca]

I hope they meet at Roland Garros in the earliest possible round.
We'll see if Tsitsipas still has the hand to pull off a heavy card there.

That would be lovely, but the point of beating Sinner is to win a Slam. Stefanos would get btchslapped by CCC in a later round.

 

[BallisticMissileFonseca]

Very obtuse take

Tsitispas wins are all old and last win was in mc where umpire was wrong

There is no world where sinner has any adversary except alcaraz

If I could take things personally and do whatever I would be a Internet coin selling billionaire fraud already. There are many younger than me

In the end you need ability and mental is almost irrelevant

Fonseca will beat Sinner in their first encounter, mark my words. Sinner's legs are shaking right now. Shaking. He knows he needs to get as many slams as possible before Joao becomes Fonseca.

 

[ibbi]

The Tsitsipas record against Sinner is completely phony and relies on the fact that Tsitsipas is now a garbage man who played Sinner once in 2024 (and beat him, admittedly) on his fave and Sinner's least fave surface, while Zverev, who had a 4-1 head to head lead at the end of 2023 has since lost 2 matches, and poor Daniil, whose ownage of Jannik was once legendary, played the guy SIX TIMES in 2024, lost 1-5 and saw his lead slip away.

 

[Soul_Evisceration]

At this rate, Tsitsipas prays that he never faces Sinner again or if he does would have to be at Monte Carlos or Roland Garros (Tsitsipas' best tournament results) and Sinner's worst surface to score any wins.

 

[SneederFeeder]

If they met anywhere currently, outside of maybe Monte Carlo (which wouldn't reverse outcomes just make it less lopsided), Sinner would destroy Tsitsipas without any issue.

Even end of 2023 Sinner won easily vs Citybus, and their only match since was on Monte Carlo, an outlier to everything where Tsitsipas excels at (as it negates his nonexistent return skills)

Everything else is pre Sinner boom, and the same nonsense logic that was used as for why Zverev would ackshually be competitive in the AO Final. We saw how it turned out