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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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