Swiss Open Gstaad Final Round-Up | Stefanos Tsitsipas wins first title since 2024 after three set clinic win over Raphael Collignon

Sunday, 19 July 2026 at 14:06

Stefanos Tsitsipas desperately looking for a positive result at the 2025 Rome Open

Stefanos Tsitsipas is a champion again. He has been through a pretty woeful time on tour and also off it over the last two years since his last title, which was in fact the Monte-Carlo Masters, but he has won the Swiss Open Gstaad, taking down Raphael Collignon in the process. He won through 6-4, 6-7, 6-3.

In general, Collignon was in his first ATP Tour final; he was aiming to join Zizou Bergs in winning a title for Belgium after the latter won Eastbourne earlier this summer. Also the clay court season lent a rise to another Belgian in Alexander Blockx.

So certainly a great time for Belgian tennis after a drought for a long time with David Goffin in particular just bowing out of the sport after anchoring it for so long in the nation.

But for Tsitsipas, it is his first since Monte-Carlo in 2024, where he caught alight again, but in the end it was very much a damp squib as he had relationship issues, hired Goran Ivanisevic, then returned to his father as well as other such issues. He has since, ironically, fired his father again, and the results this week are paying dividends.

He took down Ignacio Buse, Jerome Kym, Arthur Rinderknech, and Alexander Shevchenko, three out of the four being three-set ties, before he then saw off Collignon in one of his easier assignments of the week.

Tstisipas forced into three sets

Set one was just like it has been most of the week, it was a bit of a war of attrition. Neither really gave away many points on each others respective serves. But Tsitsipas after initially giving Collignon a break chance in the game before said you've had your opportunity, it's time for mine.

He managed to break for 4-2, albeit was broken straight back in a bit of a feeling out process on the clay courts of Gstaad. But he went one away holding 40-15 before then breaking again to take the set and it was those guilt edge chances that also took him through to the second set.

Collignon broke to open the second, going 1-0 up, and then held. He was 3-1 up at one point but he was broken for 3-3 by Tsitsipas, who then snared the lead 4-3. Albeit this was only a break back so it was back on serve, and so Tsitsipas needed to break again feasibly. He went one away at 5-4 and also 6-5, but Collignon did not quit.

Stefanos Tsitsipas represents Greece at the Davis Cup

Stefanos Tsitsipas triumphant in Gstaad.

Collignon sent it to a tie-break and eased through 73 and held the impetus at times in the decider. Tsitsipas spurned a break chance early but Tsitsipas then broke. He broke for 3-2 and then held for 4-2 without losing a single point and it seemed like Collignon was fading.

Tsitsipas went one away and then broke finally for a 6-3 win to claim the title. Redemption for the Greek on a day that Maria Sakkari also plays in the final of Athens. She will hope to join him and make it a double triumph for their home nation.

While for Collignon, it is a first ATP title he has lost, but he has broken new ground and will likely rise up the rankings as a result of it.

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