Stefanos Tsitsipas tends towards Captain Jack Sparrow
If one of his few comrades who are currently with him at Patrick Mouratoglou's academy take up scissors, one thing is certain for Stefanos Tsitsipas : The long hair stays on.
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last edit: Apr 11, 2020, 10:08 pm
Andy Roddick, the younger tennis fans may not know that anymore, was mostly the player who spoke big words calmly. When Roger Federer abandoned his long ponytail-tied hair in the mid-2000s, Roddick, who has only rarely seen land against Federer, said: "Now his hairstyle no longer speaks for us."
Dominic Thiem, on the other hand, is a man who is not averse to a color change on top, but usually wears his hair so short that a rash order from the Austrian Armed Forces would, at least in this regard, not put him off the hook. And so a few days ago at "Kasi Live" (daily from 6 p.m. in our Instagram account "tennisnetnews") Thiem suggested that his brand colleague Stefanos Tsitsipas should finally give up his mane in favor of a sleeker version.
Borg, McEnroe, Gerulaitis - Big players, big manes
Which has met with no sympathy from the Greek who is currently in Patrick Mouratoglou's academy near Nice. He would of course not cut his hair, so Tsitsipas in conversation with Christopher Kas, on the contrary: It goes very strongly towards Captain Jack Sparrow, the privateer embodied by Johnny Depp in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" cinema series.
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As a look at the big mats in tennis history shows, this approach doesn't have to be wrong. Björn Borg, for example, something like the bedrock of the flowing manes, ended his career far too early, but at least finished with eleven Grand Slam titles in his pocket. At the same time as Borg at the start were Vitas Gerulatis and, yes, John McEnroe, two candidates who were also able to gain something from longer hair: McEnroe in the version that made Herbert Prohaska a “cutie” in Austria. Gerulaitis rather anticipated the late Thomas Gottschalk.
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Gustavo Kuerten wins three times in Roland Garros
After that, however, it got a bit meager in the top positions in the world rankings, Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg - all of them not much help when it comes to super manes. Andre Agassi at least gave the impression. As the inclined reader of his biography "Open" now knows, the great American trusted the artificial hairline early on. The only really veritable successor to Björn Borg was Gustavo Kuerten, who won the title three times in Roland Garros.
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Well, Rafael Nadal also wore his hair very early, but Rafa was always light years away from the density of a Borg or Kuerten. Novak Djokovic could come up with this, but nobody has ever seen the current world number one near shoulder-length hair. And so it is up to Stefanos Tsitsipas to fit into the ancestry of Björn Borg, Jack Sparrow and, also a star of the 1970s, football world champion Mario Kempes.