Roland Garros 2023 | Tsitsipas humiliated by Alcaraz: ‘It wasn’t very fun in the first two sets…’

Stefanos Tsitsipas quickly appeared in front of the press after his defeat. No doubt he wanted to evacuate as quickly as possible this humiliation a little softened by his awakening in the third set, finally conceded in the tie-break (6-2, 6-1, 7-6). “Am I touched? A little, but that’s normal. It would be worrying if I wasn’t“, confided the Greek.

Touched, he really was and if he assured that his opponent had “very well played, not exceptionally but very well“, he for his part regretted not having learned the lessons of the past. “What I’m going to avoid in the future is taking melatonin pills the night before a game, it’s not working very well for me“, Tsitsipas first revealed. Why did you feel the need to ingest this substance that helps regulate sleep?

Melatonin, Tsitsipas’ bad choice?

“My program has been complicated these past few days. I had matches in the evening, not super late but enough to ruin my sleep pattern. Sleep is the most important thing in the recovery process. I made this mistake in the past, before playing Novak at Bercy for a year. I had the same score as in the first two sets today” Stefanos Tsitsipas has a good memory: in 2019, he had actually taken 1 and 2 against Djokovic in the quarterfinals at Bercy. As for knowing how pills taken the night before could have influenced these matches, the mystery remains unsolved…

“I don’t want to take anything away from Carlos, the kid played well, he deserves his victoryhe wanted to qualify. Tennis is very close to my heart. It wasn’t much fun on the court in the first two sets, I felt drained, sleepy in a way.” And even the repeated blows of Carlos Alcaraz did not manage to bring him out of his torpor, not immediately in any case when it rained from the start of the game. The “kid” was going too fast for him and it is from his sofa that he will follow the semi-final that everyone is waiting for between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic.