{"id":52111,"date":"2025-08-08T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52111\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:05:09","slug":"stefanos-tsitsipas-accepts-winston-salem-open-wild-card-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/52111\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas accepts Winston-Salem Open wild card | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Winston-Salem<br \/>\n    Tsitsipas accepts Winston-Salem Open wild card<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champion Sonego and finalist Michelsen also signed up to compete<\/p>\n<p>August 08, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tsitsipas-winston-salem-2025-wild-card-image.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanos Tsitsipas will compete in Winston-Salem for the first time.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RYAN LIM\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Stefanos Tsitsipas will compete in Winston-Salem for the first time.<br \/>\n        By Winston-Salem Open<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/winston-salem\/6242\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winston-Salem Open<\/a> has awarded two-time Grand Slam finalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/stefanos-tsitsipas\/te51\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> a wild card into the 2025 tournament. This will be the 12-time ATP Tour champion\u2019s debut appearance in Winston-Salem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to award a wild card to a player of Tsitsipas\u2019 calibre,\u201d said Tournament Director Jeff Ryan. \u201cHe brings a world-class pedigree that adds to our already exciting 2025 player field, and we can\u2019t wait to see him in action here in Winston-Salem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754629509_224_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas reached a career-high ranking of World No. 3 in 2021 and has finished runner-up at the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/roland-garros\/520\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Garros<\/a> and 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a>. He has one title to his name so far in 2025, claimed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/dubai\/495\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas joins a number of Top 50 stars set to compete at this year\u2019s event, including reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/winston-salem\/6242\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winston-Salem Open<\/a> champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/lorenzo-sonego\/su87\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Sonego<\/a> and 2024 finalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alex-michelsen\/m0qi\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Michelsen<\/a>. The full player field can be viewed <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winstonsalemopen.com\/en\/players\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, with remaining spots to be filled by wild cards and winners of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/winston-salem\/6242\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winston-Salem Open<\/a> qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/winston-salem\/6242\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winston-Salem Open<\/a> will run from August 16-23. All Tickets &amp; Packages are available now at <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winstonsalemopen.com\/en\/tickets\/ticket-information\" target=\"_blank\">winstonsalemopen.com\/tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winston-Salem Tsitsipas accepts Winston-Salem Open wild card Reigning champion Sonego and finalist Michelsen also signed up to compete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-52111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}