Stefanos Tsitsipas Blasts Naomi Osaka:-“I Don’t Think There’s An Excuse”

Published 07/02/2019, 11:22 AM EDT

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Few moments before Stefanos Tsitsipas got knocked out from Wimbledon Championships 2019, Naomi Osaka who was one amongst the biggest upsets of the day as she lost her opening match to Yulia Putintseva in straight sets, had adjourned her press conference in the middle and displayed an immature act. Tsitsipas contemplated on the lack of consistency in the upcoming generation of tennis. 

Stefanos Tsitsipas was interrogated about Osaka not completing her post-match press conference and was her early exit from the tournament was the reason behind her leaving the press midway. “I don’t think that’s an excuse,” World Number six said. “We’ve seen players my age, many years ago. I would like to name Rafa, Roger, seemed very mature and professional in what they were doing. They had consistency from a young age.”

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20-year-old Greek, Stefanos Tsitsipas believes Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal’s maturity from their early days on tour is absent amongst the young active players and their performance on the professional courts, predominantly in Grand Slams is not visible. 

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“They always did well tournament by tournament without major drops or inconsistency. Something that we as the NextGen players lack, including myself as well, is this inconsistency week by week. It’s a week-by-week problem basically, that we cannot adjust to that,” Stefanos Tsitsipas added.

The Greek, Stefanos Tsitsipas prevailed decently in his past two Grand Slams, where he dealt with losses to former champions of that particular court, but his round one five-set loss to World Number 89, Thomas Fabbiano was devastating.

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“My goal this year was to stay as consistent as possible. I had a great year last year. There were a lot of ups and downs during the year. I really wanted to focus and be aware of every single match that I’m going to play this year. It hasn’t been going up to the plan,” the World Number six, Tsitsipas mentioned.

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