{"id":69105,"date":"2025-07-17T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69105\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:40:10","slug":"patrick-mouratoglou-responds-when-asked-if-stefanos-tsitsipas-can-ever-win-a-grand-slam-in-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/69105\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mouratoglou responds when asked if Stefanos Tsitsipas can ever win a Grand Slam in his career\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stefanos Tsitsipas has endured a tricky start to his 2025 campaign as he continues to tumble down the rankings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Greek star was once ranked number three in the world but now sits outside the ATP<\/a> top 25, at 27th.<\/p>\n

Except for one stunning week in the UAE, where Tsitsipas won the Dubai Tennis Championships<\/a>, the 26-year-old has largely struggled for form in 2025.<\/p>\n

Tsitsipas has won just one of his four matches at Grand Slams this year, losing in the first round of the Australian Open and Wimbledon<\/a> and the second round of the French Open.<\/p>\n

\"StefanosPhoto by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

As Tsitsipas<\/a> begins the long road back to the top of the men\u2019s game, one top tennis coach has revealed whether he thinks he can still win a Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n

Patrick Mouratoglou says it is \u2018difficult to imagine\u2019 Stefanos Tsitsipas winning a Grand Slam<\/p>\n

During the latest episode of \u2018All on the table\u2019, Nick Kyrgios<\/a> asked Patrick Mouratoglou if he believes Tsitsipas can win a major.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, it is difficult to believe because the two other guys [Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz] are so much better than anyone, and he is not at his level himself, so it is difficult to imagine,\u201d said Mouratoglou<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in today\u2019s game, if you want to win a Grand Slam, you cannot have a weakness. It is impossible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guys will kill you on your weakness, so he has to really strengthen his game if he wants to have a chance. Maybe on clay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Training at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy, Tsitsipas has spent a lot of time with Mouratoglou throughout his career, as the Frenchman knows just how much talent the 26-year-old possesses.<\/p>\n

Talent isn\u2019t everything, though, something Tsitsipas\u2019s coach Goran Ivanisevic<\/a> mentioned in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

\"StefanosPhoto by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all \u2018I want it, I want it\u2019 but he isn\u2019t doing anything about it. He has to resolve his back issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked. I\u2019ve never seen such an underprepared player in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ivanisevic\u2019s comments came off the back of Tsitsipas\u2019 first-round retirement at Wimbledon<\/a>, where he struggled with his back.<\/p>\n

Only time will tell if Tsitsipas can win a Grand Slam title in his career, but as his dreams slowly drift away, he may begin to reminisce about a golden opportunity he let slip through his fingers four years ago.<\/p>\n

Stefanos Tsitsipas was one set away from winning a Grand Slam<\/p>\n

Tsitsipas made a strong start in Paris four years ago, qualifying for his maiden Grand Slam final with wins over four seeded players.<\/p>\n\nRound <\/strong><\/td>\nOpponent<\/strong><\/td>\nSeed<\/strong><\/td>\nScore<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSF<\/td>\nAlexander Zverev<\/td>\n6th<\/td>\n6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQF<\/td>\nDaniil Medvedev<\/td>\n2nd<\/td>\n6-3, 7-6, 7-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n4R<\/td>\nPablo Carreno Busta<\/td>\n12th<\/td>\n6-3, 6-2, 7-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n3R<\/td>\nJohn Isner<\/td>\n31st<\/td>\n5-7, 6-3, 7-6, 6-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2R<\/td>\nPedro Martinez<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n6-3, 6-4, 6-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1R<\/td>\nJeremy Chardy<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n7-6, 6-3, 6-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Stefanos Tsitsipas at the 2021 French Open<\/p>\n

Standing between Tsitsipas and the French Open title was Serbia\u2019s Novak Djokovic<\/a>, then an 18-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n

Winning an intense first set, it was Tsitsipas who took the lead, 7-6 [8-6] when his opponent made two unforced errors at the end of the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Taking his game to another level in the second, Tsitsipas began to dominate Djokovic on Court Philippe Chatrier, racing into a 7-6, 6-2 lead.<\/p>\n

The Greek star was just a set away from becoming a Grand Slam champion, but unfortunately for Tsitsipas, Djokovic wasn\u2019t done yet.<\/p>\n

Battling back as he so often does, Djokovic took the third and fourth sets 6-3, 6-2, sending the 2021 French Open final into a decider.<\/p>\n

There, the experience of Djokovic shone through, breaking in the third game of the fifth set and holding onto his advantage to win a thriller in Paris.<\/p>\n

The defeat was devastating for Tsitsipas, as he missed out on a chance to become the first Greek Grand Slam champion by a single set.<\/p>\n

\"StefanosPhoto by John Berry\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tsitsipas returned to play Djokovic in another Grand Slam final at the Australian Open<\/a> two years later, but failed to provide a sustained challenge, as he lost out in straight sets.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if Tsitsipas can make it back to a Grand Slam final, but it will certainly be something to look out for in the future.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas has endured a tricky start to his 2025 campaign as he continues to tumble down the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,6116,62,21411,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-69105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-patrick-mouratoglou","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114866973803039093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}