Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas lifted the EFG Swiss Open Gstaad trophy, beating Belgian seed No. 7 Raphael Collignon 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3 on Sunday to become the first Greek player to win the title.<\/p>\n
The win ends a drought stretching back to February 2025, when Tsitsipas beat Felix Auger-Aliassime to win in Dubai, and lifts him back to No. 51 in the world, a jump of 34 places from the No. 85 he was ranked coming into the week. \u201cOh, it\u2019s an amazing feeling,\u201d Tsitsipas said of lifting the trophy. \u201cThey show you how much good work you\u2019ve been putting in. It\u2019s a great sign of whether you\u2019re on the right path, and these come with consistent wins \u2013 you can\u2019t lift trophies if you don\u2019t win consistently. Having that sign, being able to consistently deliver wins, fills me up with confidence, hunger. I want to do more, I want to push my body to the limits.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was extremely physical,\u201d he said of the final itself. \u201cYou could feel it towards the last couple of games how physical it was becoming, and I knew he was breaking a little bit physically. I was just trying to hang in there for a few more shots, and it paid off at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
He needed the full seven days to get there, beating Kazakhstan\u2019s Aleksandr Shevchenko 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the semi-finals after seeing off seed No. 4 Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, Switzerland\u2019s Jerome Kym 6-4, 6-7(2), 7-6(5) and seed No. 5 Ignacio Buse 6-4, 6-4. It is his 13th tour-level title, and his sixth on clay, first since Monte-Carlo in 2024.<\/p>\n
I want to beat at least three top ten players this year.<\/p>\n
Collignon, the world No. 42, was chasing a maiden ATP Tour title that would have made him the first Belgian champion in Gstaad. The 24-year-old had needed a rally of his own to get to the final, coming back from 1-6, 3-5 and saving a match point to beat Argentine seed No. 6 Juan Manuel Cerundolo 1-6, 7-6(5), 7-5 in the semi-finals, having also beaten Mon\u00e9gasque seed No. 3 Valentin Vacherot 7-6(7), 4-6, 7-5, Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Sonego 7-6(2), 7-6(5) and Kazakhstan\u2019s Timofey Skatov 3-6, 7-6(1), 6-4. He leaves Gstaad with a new career-high ranking regardless of the result.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas set his sights on more before leaving the mountains. \u201cI want to beat at least three top ten players this year,\u201d he said. \u201cA 500 event would be nice to close the year with, if there is one. But first, the smallest goal would probably be to enter the top 50 again \u2013 I\u2019d like to see myself back in the top 15.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas lifted the EFG Swiss Open Gstaad trophy, beating Belgian seed No. 7 Raphael Collignon 6-4,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-811328","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\/811328","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=811328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}