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Stefanos Tsitsipas

Stefanos Tsitsipas
Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς
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Tsitsipas at the 2015 US Open
Country (sports)  Greece
Residence Athens, Greece
Born (1998-08-12) 12 August 1998 (age 18)
Athens, Greece
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money $71,304
Singles
Career record 0–1
Career titles 0
5 Futures
Highest ranking No. 196 (30 January 2017)
Current ranking No. 205 (20 February 2017)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q2 (2017)
French Open Junior QF (2016)
Wimbledon Junior SF (2016)
US Open Junior SF (2016)
Doubles
Career record 0–0
Career titles 0
6 Futures
Highest ranking No. 316 (10 October 2016)
Current ranking No. 383 (20 February 2017)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open Junior 2R (2015)
French Open Junior QF (2016)
Wimbledon Junior W (2016)
US Open Junior SF (2015)
Last updated on: 20 February 2017.

Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greek: Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς; born 12 August 1998) is a Greek professional tennis player and the current Greek No. 1.

Tsitsipas is the current world number one junior tennis player. His junior highlights include winning the Trofeo Bonfiglio, a 'Grade A' event in Milan, Italy as well as being a finalist at the Orange Bowl in both 2014 and 2015. He is the winner of the Boys' Doubles at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships together with Kenneth Raisma, thus becoming the second ever male Greek tennis player to win a Grand Slam title at any division and the first one in the Open Era, with the first male Greek tennis player in history to win a Grand Slam title being Nicky Kalogeropoulos, the winner of the 1963 Roland Garros and Wimbledon boys' singles tournaments.

Tsitsipas has a career high ATP singles ranking of 196 achieved on 30 January 2017. On 10 October 2016, he peaked at world number 316 in the ATP doubles rankings. Tsitsipas has won a total of five ITF singles Futures titles as well as six ITF doubles Futures titles so far in his career.

Tsitsipas is the son of a Greek father and a Russian mother - former pro tennis player Julija Apostoli, his grandfather - soviet football player and manager Sergei Salnikov.


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