Petros Tsitsipas (Greek: Πέτρος Τσιτσιπάς, pronounced [ˈpetros t͡sit͡siˈpas]; born 27 July 2000) is a Greek professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 81, achieved on 23 October 2023. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 727, achieved on 30 August 2021. Tsitsipas represents Greece at the Davis Cup, where he has a W–L record of 10–9. He is the younger brother of Stefanos Tsitsipas with whom he has won one doubles title.

Petros Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas in 2023
Country (sports) Greece
Born (2000-07-27) 27 July 2000 (age 23)
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro2019
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS $304,563
Singles
Career record3–3 (50.0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 727 (30 August 2021)
Doubles
Career record13–36 (26.5% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles1
Highest rankingNo. 81 (23 October 2023)
Current rankingNo. 95 (15 January 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open2R (2023)
French Open1R (2023)
Wimbledon1R (2021, 2023)
US Open2R (2023)
Last updated on: 19 January 2024.

Career edit

2021–2024: ATP singles and doubles debut, 16 wildcards with Stefanos, 100th career wildcard edit

The brothers first partnered at the 2021 Australian Open, where they received their first team wildcard to the main draw but lost in the first round. The next two tournaments were the 2021 Rotterdam Open and 2021 Open 13 Provence in Marseille, France where they entered as main draw wildcards and lost in the second and first rounds respectively.

Petros made his ATP singles debut as a wildcard as well to the main draw of the event at the 2021 Open 13, but lost to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the first round in 45 minutes.[1] The misuse of wildcards in that case of Petros Tsitsipas individually and in general for the brothers has been brought up by players and fans.[2][3]

They next partnered at the 2021 Monte-Carlo Masters after receiving a fourth team wildcard to the event. They reached the round of 16 by beating 8th seeded Kevin Krawietz and Horia Tecău. The pair received yet another wildcard for the next Masters 1000 at the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open but lost again in the first round. They served as alternates in a third Masters in a row at the Italian Open but lost for the fourth time in the first round. At the 2021 ATP Lyon Open, Petros and Stefanos received their sixth wildcard in doubles but lost the first round match.[4] This was the fifth loss in seven tournaments, in the first round, since the beginning of the year.

The brothers received their second Grand Slam and seventh wildcard for the year at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, losing in the first round. They also received their eight wildcard at the 2021 Hamburg European Open, losing in the first round.

 
Tsitsipas at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters

The brothers received two more wildcards at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters and 2022 Mutua Madrid Open, where they lost in the second and first rounds respectively. They also received their eleventh and twelfth wildcard in Stuttgart and at the 2022 Mallorca Championships where they also lost in the second and first rounds respectively. They entered the 2022 US Open as an alternate pair where they lost in the first round.

The brothers again received a wildcard at the 2023 ABN AMRO Open in Rotterdam, their thirteenth in two years, where they lost in the first round.[5] Petros Tsitsipas again partnering French Luca Sanchez received his fourteenth wildcard to the main draw of the 2023 Open 13 Provence in Marseille. They received wildcards again, their fourteenth and fifteenth as a team, for the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters and the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open. It was Petros's 100th wildcard in his career.[6][7]

He received a wildcard for the 2023 Mallorca Championships with Bart Stevens.[8] At the 2023 Wimbledon Championships the brothers lost again in the first round to French teenagers Arthur Fils and Luca Van Assche.[9]

Petros and Stefanos Tsitsipas won their first doubles ATP title in Antwerp, defeating Ariel Behar and Adam Pavlásek in the final.[10]

He received his 16th wildcard with Stefanos at the 2024 Mutua Madrid Open.

Doubles performance timeline edit

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A 1R A 2R 0 / 2 1–2
French Open A A A A 1R 0 / 1 0–1
Wimbledon A NH 1R A 1R 0 / 2 0–2
US Open A A A 1R 2R 0 / 2 1–2
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–2 0–1 2–4 0 / 7 2–7
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters A NH A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Miami Open A NH A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Monte-Carlo Masters A NH 2R 2R 2R 0 / 3 3–3
Madrid Open A NH 1R 1R 1R 0 / 3 0–3
Italian Open A A 1R A A 0 / 1 0–1
Canadian Open A NH A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Cincinnati Masters A A A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Shanghai Masters A NH A 0 / 0 0–0
Paris Masters A A A A 0 / 0 0–0
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 1–3 1–2 1–2 0 / 7 3–7
Career statistics
Tournaments 1 2 9 7 10 29
Overall win–loss 0–1 0–4 2–10 3–9 4–12 9–36
Year-end ranking 1077 813 218 145 97

ATP Tour Finals edit

Doubles: 1 (1 title) edit

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP Finals (0–0)
ATP Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP Tour 500 (0–0)
ATP Tour 250 (1–0)
Titles by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Titles by setting
Outdoor (0–0)
Indoor (1–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Oct 2023 European Open, Belgium 250 Series Hard (i)   Stefanos Tsitsipas   Ariel Behar
  Adam Pavlásek
6–7(5–7), 6–4, [10–8]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals edit

Singles: 1 (0–1) edit

Legend (singles)
Challenger Tour (0–0)
Futures Tour (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Jul 2021 M25 Ajaccio, France World Tennis Tour Hard   Clément Chidekh 3–6, 0–6

Doubles: 20 (11–9) edit

Legend
ATP Challenger (3–4)
ITF Futures (8–5)
Finals by surface
Hard (4–6)
Clay (7–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Aug 2016 Italy F10 Futures Clay   Stefanos Tsitsipas   Franco Agamenone
  Mateo Nicolas Martinez
2–6, 2–6
Loss 0–2 Oct 2018 Tunisia F34 Futures Hard   Duje Ajduković   Bernardo Azevedo Pereira e Oliveira
  Robert Strombachs
4–6, 7–6(8–6), [6–10]
Loss 0–3 Nov 2018 Greece F8 Futures Hard   Markos Kalovelonis   Vít Kopřiva
  David Pichler
2–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Loss 0–4 May 2019 M15 Heraklion, Greece World Tennis Tour Hard   Michail Pervolarakis   Lloyd Glasspool
  Aidan McHugh
6–7(5–7), 6–7(2–7)
Win 1–4 Sep 2020 M15 Monastir, Tunisia World Tennis Tour Hard   Aristotelis Thanos   Matías Franco Descotte
  Thiago Agustín Tirante
6–3, 6–4
Win 2–4 Jul 2021 M25 Kottingbrunn, Austria World Tennis Tour Clay   Martins Podzus   David Poljak
  Alexander Shevchenko
6–3, 6–3
Win 3–4 Aug 2021 M25 Bolzano, Italy World Tennis Tour Clay   Victor Vlad Cornea   Marco Bortolotti
  Daniel Dutra da Silva
6–3, 6–4
Win 4–4 Aug 2021 M15 Oldenzaal, Netherlands World Tennis Tour Clay   Constantin Schmitz   Jonathan Binding
  Mark Whitehouse
7–6(7–4), 6–4
Win 5–4 Aug 2021 Prague, Czech Republic Challenger Clay   Victor Vlad Cornea   Martin Krumich
  Andrew Paulson
6–3, 3–6, [10–8]
Win 6–4 Nov 2021 M25 Saint-Dizier, France World Tennis Tour Hard (i)   Alexander Donski   Blake Ellis
  Tristan Schoolkate
6–4, 4–6, [10–7]
Win 7–4 Nov 2021 M25 Villers-lès-Nancy, France World Tennis Tour Hard (i)   Alexander Donski   Blake Ellis
  Tristan Schoolkate
7–6(7–2), 3–2 ret.
Win 8–4 Mar 2022 M25 Poreč, Croatia World Tennis Tour Clay   Aristotelis Thanos   Titouan Droguet
  Ergi Kırkın
7–6(7–4), 4–6, [10–7]
Win 9–4 Mar 2022 M25 Opatija, Croatia World Tennis Tour Clay   Zvonimir Babić   Riccardo Bonadio
  Michael Vrbenský
6–3, 4–6, [10–8]
Loss 9–5 Oct 2022 Brest, France Challenger Hard (i)   Filip Bergevi   Viktor Durasovic
  Otto Virtanen
4–6, 4–6
Loss 9–6 Nov 2022 Helsinki, Finland Challenger Hard (i)   Reese Stalder   Purav Raja
  Divij Sharan
7–6(7–5), 3–6, [8–10]
Win 10–6 Mar 2023 Antalya, Turkey Challenger Clay   Filip Bergevi   Sarp Ağabigün
  Ergi Kırkın
6–2, 6–4
Loss 10–7 May 2023 Francavilla al Mare, Italy Challenger Clay   Sander Arends   Nicolás Barrientos
  Ariel Behar
6–7(1–7), 6–3, [6–10]
Loss 10–8 Nov 2023 M15 Heraklion, Greece World Tennis Tour Hard   Pavlos Tsitsipas   Neil Oberleitner
  Joel Josef Schwarzler
6–7(4–7), 2-6
Win 11–8 Feb 2024 Bahrain Ministry of Interior Tennis Challenger, Bahrain Challenger Hard   Sergio Martos Gornes   Vasil Kirkov
  Patrik Niklas-Salminen
3-6, 6–3, [10–8]
Loss 11-9 April 2024 Oeiras, Portugal Challenger Clay   Sergio Martos Gornés   Mick Veldheer
  Filip Bergevi
1–6, 4–6

References edit

  1. ^ Addicott, Adam (2021-03-14). "Marseille Open Admits Wildcard Issued To Brother Of Tennis Star Was 'A Thank You' Gesture". UBITENNIS. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  2. ^ "Petros Tsitsipas wildcard shows a system that is open to misuse | Tumaini Carayol". TheGuardian.com. 26 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Tsitsipas family under fire for alleged wildcard misuse". 29 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Tsitsipas Brothers Fall in Lyon Opener".
  5. ^ "Stefanos Tsitsipas and his brother Petros receive a wild card to play doubles in Rotterdam". 4 February 2023.
  6. ^ ""And people get annoyed when Andy Murray gets some" – Tennis fans displeased with Stefanos Tsitsipas' brother Petros receiving 100th career wildcard". 28 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Wildcards – the constant agony of choice". 3 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Scouting Report: Tsitsipas, Fritz Defend Respective Titles in Mallorca, Eastbourne". ATP Tour.
  9. ^ Sarkar, Pritha (2023-07-09). "Tsitsipas brothers ousted by French teenagers in first round". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  10. ^ "Hijikata/Purcell Clinch Tokyo Title, Tsitsipas Brothers Win Antwerp Trophy". atpworldtour.com. ATP. 22 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.

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