Stefanos Tsitsipas hopeful for Masters title at Miami Open 2021

Stefanos Tsitsipas has won big titles before but he is yet to win his first Masters 1000 trophy which he hopes he can do at the Miami Open 2021.

Stefanos Tsitsipas has had a solid start to the 2021 season going deep in several events but is yet to win a title this year coming close last week in Acapulco where he lost to Zverev in the final. Speaking ahead of the Miami Open he expressed belief he is close to winning his first Masters title:

“I would be thrilled to walk away with a Masters 1000 title. The opportunity hasn’t presented itself, but I feel like I’m getting really close. I really want it a lot and the desire is there. It always has been. I’m always working to get better, and I think that’s what’s going to help me get to that point of winning Masters 1000 events. I feel also I just need more opportunities to get there.”

This will be the 3rd time Tsitsipas competes in Miami with his best result coming in 2019 when he reached the 3rd round. He is aware that there is a big opportunity due to the top 3 not playing at this event:

“It is an opportunity, I won’t lie. It is an opportunity. There are plenty of good guys that aren’t in the top five that can play good tennis as well. I can see them as a threat, too. I don’t see myself as the favorite of the tournament. I like to enter a tournament with low expectations and build my way through."

He was asked about last weeks Acapulco final loss which Tsitsipas admitted was not his best tennis but it was also a learning experience:

"I can only learn from it and it is something that I cannot go back and fix. I might as well just embrace it and move on stronger and take that as an example and as a lesson that I wouldn’t want to happen again in the near future or in any other final that I might play.”