The 24-year-old Greek burst onto the scene as a hugely talented teenager a few years ago but has yet to land a Grand Slam title. “My start was highly likely down to this.” About 20 minutes which I usually do not do, actually never done.” “I wondered myself why I did not feel the adrenaline and stress,” he said. Tsitsipas did not play a single late night session match during the tournament before his match against Alcaraz. Not super late, but late enough for me to kind of have my sleep schedule ruined, in a way,” he said. Tsitsipas, however, said a 20-minute nap before the match as well as the use of melatonin tablets to regulate his sleep during the tournament and late matches in Paris had been decisive. “He played tennis with few errors and that was enough to beat me.”Īlcaraz needed just 100 minutes to go two sets and 5-1 up in the third on Court Philippe Chatrier, having outclassed his opponent in every single aspect of the game. I mean, I don’t think he played exceptional, but he played great.” “I don’t think he played any crazy tennis. “One thing that I’m going to try to avoid in the future is have melatonin pills and naps before matches because it clearly doesn’t seem to be working,” a visibly disappointed Tsitsipas said. While Alcaraz described the win as one of the best of his career, for his opponent the defeat was self-induced. Tsitsipas, meanwhile, put his three-set quarterfinal mauling against Alcaraz down to sleeping pills, prematch naps, and late matches rather than the Spaniard’s sensational quality.Īlcaraz pulverized the fifth seed with a jaw-dropping display before a brief comeback by Tsitsipas forced a third set tiebreak which the Spaniard won as well. “I’d say the experience is better in that point, but I’m not going to think about that.” Tsitsipas blames nap, sleeping pills for Alcaraz mauling This is going to be my second,” the US Open champion added. “But it’s going to be his 45th semifinal in a Grand Slam. So it’s going to be a great match for me.”Īlcaraz expects a different match but said he wanted to believe his youth would give him the edge over the 36-year-old Djokovic. “Of course for me, it’s amazing to make history, playing a semifinal with such a legend like Novak. So I’m really looking forward to that match.
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