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"Perhaps awakens me and feeds a little bit my ego": Stefanos Tsitsipas sees fire potentially burning from 'deserved' win for Taylor Fritz
ColumnMonday, 22 January 2024 at 06:30
Greece’s tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas has conceded that he was second-best in the fourth-round tie of the Australian Open 2024 against the world number 12 Taylor Fritz.
The 25-year-old’s journey in the first Grand Slam of the new season came to an end on Saturday as he lost to the American tennis star in round-of-16 clash with a score of 7-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.
Talking to the media after the match, Tsitsipas, who finished the Australian Open in 2023 as a runner-up, conceded that he was just not good enough in the match and that Fritz deserved to win the tie.
“Well, what I was thinking is that I have a big match coming up and there's an opponent that I've played before at the Australian Open who likes these courts, and his game is suited for hard courts and he's got a lot of power, he's got a big serve,” he said. “These were things that I was for sure concerned going into the match and I had to be prepared to face.
“I didn't face them the best way, but he played really well and he deserves the win because he did everything possible to kind of not let me dictate or be in control of any point. I can only, let's say, take that as something that hits me really hard and perhaps awakes me and feeds a little bit my ego.”
Fritz is now set to face the current world number one Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinal of the Australian Open on Wednesday.
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