“You cannot allow yourself to feel like God”: Tsitsipas points out dangers of complacency despite early season form

Stefanos Tsitsipas is looking very sharp to start the year and it comes from a place of not allowing himself to feel complacent, a place where he wishes he was more often.

Tsitsipas has a huge year coming up for himself as she hopes to take the next step in 2023. He's made a pretty good start so far as he's looked really sharp to start the year. He will need to keep that going and he's got a plan of doing just that. Talking after his United Cup outings, Tsitsipas shared his mindset:

“It is a very nice place to be in. I wish I can be in that place more often. When you’re able to play like this, of course, you know, you don’t know what the response is going to be from the other side of the court. You always have to have sort of that thing in your mind when you play."

He added the importance of staying humble and adding to his game:

“You cannot allow yourself to feel like God when you are on the court unless you’ve reached that sort of, let’s say — how do we say it again? — the flow, the flow state, which has happened to me a few times last season, and I hope it will happen this season as well where you feel like everything just goes your way, there is no more thinking involved on the court. Your decisions are sort of part of your subconscious and you don’t even have to force anything anymore."

And concluded:

“So it’s a very nice place to be when you are able to be so much focused on a little fuzzy yellow thing that is coming from the other side of the court, and that builds up a momentum, builds up this, let’s call it Zen mode that I’m seeking for when I play tennis. I sort of had like an 80% today. I feel like there is still the 20% left out there.”