Doubles with the Big Three <\/p>\n
Playing with Djokovic was a big thrill for Tsitsipas this week. He has now played doubles with all of the venerable Big Three (Djokovic, Federer, Nadal), and he compared the experiences during his interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was actually very surprised how good Rafa is in doubles. You see him as a very strong singles player, you know, back from the baseline. He comes to the net occasionally to finish points. So I was really surprised to see how well Rafa places his serves to give me easy volleys when I played with him at the Laver Cup. And the second thing that I noticed is just that determination, the greed, the will to win. Rafa was exceptional at that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Greek also gushed about Federer, the elegant Swiss who is tied with Djokovic for the all-time lead in singles titles in Tennis Paradise with five.<\/p>\n
\u201cRoger, it was just a masterclass,\u201d he said. \u201cHe’s pure elegance. Every single minute that I was out there with him, it was pure joy. It’s like a dream come true because I used to look up to him and I always liked his game style. The reason I pursued a single-handed backhand is also because of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
And finally, on this week\u2019s experience with Djokovic, Tsitsipas said:<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m really happy that I got to play with him. I was missing a Pokemon card. That was Novak Djokovic in doubles. I had Roger and Rafa in my collection.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have nothing but respect [for Djokovic]. The way he is able to find solutions, the way he’s able to apply his brain into coming up with a base game plan is incredible. And that’s what I enjoyed a lot with him this week. He might not serve the biggest. He might not hit the craziest shots, but the precision and the way he sees the court is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bencic, Cobolli Advance<\/p>\n
The Italian-Swiss duo of Belinda Bencic<\/a> and Flavio Cobolli<\/a> advanced into the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over France\u2019s Kristina Mladenovic<\/a> and Manuel Guinard<\/a>, while top-seeded Gabriela Dabrowski<\/a> and Lloyd Glasspool<\/a> defeated Tim Puetz<\/a> and Erin Routliffe<\/a>, 7-5, 6-4.<\/p>\n Thursday\u2019s final quarterfinal, between Julian Cash and Demi Schuurs and Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori, will take place later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doubles with the Big Three Playing with Djokovic was a big thrill for Tsitsipas this week. He has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-536681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536681","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=536681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}