Paris [France]: Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas was surprised and was taken aback in the French Open final against Novak Djokovic as he described Serbian as a \u2018different player\u2019 in the last three sets of the match.<\/p>\n
For the first two sets in the match, Tsitsipas was successfully able to derail a lethargic Djokovic. But somehow World No.1 regained his focus and put a herculean effort to best the 22-year-old in a grueling five-set marathon by 6-7(6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know, he left the court after two sets to love down, I don\u2019t know what happened there, but he came back to me like a different player suddenly. I have no idea. He played really well. He gave me no space,\u201d said Tsitsipas on the court, lamenting the challenge of facing the Serbian over five sets.<\/p>\n
By reaching the podium at the Roland Garros, Tsitsipas will now boast a career-high ranking of No.4 next week. First-time slam finalist showed immense faith in his skills and ability as he reiterated that there is no reason for him, not to be holding that trophy one day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe, yes, I\u2019m able to play for titles like this. Despite my loss today, I have faith in my game. I very much believe I can get to that point very soon. I was close today,\u201d insisted Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very sad because it was a good opportunity. I was playing good. I was feeling good. Yeah, I lost an opportunity to do something better today. But I think with the same attitude and if I don\u2019t downgrade myself, I see no reason for me not to be holding that trophy one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas is now headed off to Halle, Germany, as he ignites his grass-court campaign on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paris [France]: Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas was surprised and was taken aback in the French Open final against Novak Djokovic as he described Serbian as a \u2018different player\u2019 in the last three sets of the match. For the first two sets in the match, Tsitsipas was successfully able to derail a lethargic Djokovic. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}