The Greek is one of the younger players and part of the next-gen. Therefore, it is understandable, that Tsitsipas was also influenced by video games in a younger age. Now, after the Madrid Open is played as
Virtual Madrid Open, Stefanos sends a message to his parents. He can prove them wrong when they were saying to him that it is useless to play video games.
“Happy to prove my parents wrong back in the day when they used to tell me playing video games would bring me nowhere in my life”, said Tsitsipas. “It’s great being part of the first virtual online tennis tournament with actual professional tennis players”.