United Cup: Milestone for post-pandemic champions
No player has won more professional tennis matches than Stefanos Tsitsipas after the Corona break in summer 2020. The success against Grigor Dimitrov on the first day of the United Cup was a very special one.
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last edit: Dec 30, 2022, 01:17 pm
The absolute safest bet in international tennis for the 2023 season was redeemed before the turn of the year: With his dramatic three-set win against Grigor Dimitrov on the first day of the United Cup in Australia, Stefanos Tsitsipas now has 250 match successes in his career. hook it.
The aesthetically valuable 4: 6, 6: 2 and 7: 6 (4) against Dimitrov also gave the 24-year-old Athenian his 133rd victory since the tennis circus resumed operations after the Corona break in summer 2020. Tsitsipas leads this rating ahead of another frequent player: Andrey Rublev, who holds at 130. This is followed by Daniil Medvedev with 128, Novak Djokovic with 120 and Casper Ruud with 119.
Djokovic wins four Majors
For well-known reasons, Djokovic in particular had significantly fewer opportunities to prove his championship as usual. Otherwise, Nole would probably lead by far in the post-Covid table. Whereby Djokovic completely different things are more important than statistics of this kind. After returning to work in 2020, the Serb won four major titles (in 2021 at the Australian Open, in Roland Garros and in Wimbledon, and one more in London the following year).
Stefanos Tsitsipas, on the other hand, is still waiting for the really big coup. The two championships in Monte Carlo, which he won in 2021 and 2022, cannot keep up either.