{"id":58585,"date":"2025-08-10T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58585\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:48:12","slug":"stefanos-tsitsipas-says-the-change-coming-to-the-atp-tour-is-one-he-has-been-dreaming-about-for-a-very-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58585\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas says the change coming to the ATP Tour is one he has been &#8216;dreaming about for a very long time&#8217;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas is having a difficult year on the ATP Tour this season, and recently parted ways with his former coach Goran Ivanisevic. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/the-key-reason-why-stefanos-tsitsipas-picked-goran-ivanisevic-as-his-new-coach-has-now-been-revealed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsitsipas appointed Ivanisevic<\/a> in May ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wimbledon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a>, but ended his player-coach relationship with the Croatian after just three matches, of which he won one. <\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has only added one title to his name in 2025, and has plummeted as low as 30th in the world rankings. <\/p>\n<p>Despite having one of his worst years on tour to date, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/stefanos-tsitsipas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsitsipas<\/a> has finally received some good news to smile about. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222740515-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece looks on during a practice session prior to The Championships Wimbledon 2025 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.\" class=\"wp-image-108801\" \/>Photo by Hannah Peters\/Getty ImagesStefanos Tsitsipas \u2018dream\u2019 has come true on the ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>It was announced that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a> 250 tournament in Belgrade will relocate to the Greek star\u2019s hometown of Athens, and is set to take place in November. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with BB Tennis, Tsitsipas said of the change: \u201cI\u2019m very happy with the news. I\u2019ve been dreaming of a 250 being held in my city for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo to see it come to fruition and become something that\u2019s actually happening for once creates a lot of relief and a lot of inner satisfaction and happiness, knowing that big events like these are coming to Greece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a very exciting three, four months for Greek tennis because of our Davis Cup tie with Brazil, which is going to be big for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to be playing again at the Olympic Stadium, which hasn\u2019t been used since the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of challenges will be held in Hersonissos, Crete, so this is another perfect addition for Greek tennis, and, well, to close it off with the 250, I think we couldn\u2019t ask for something better this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story of Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 disapointing 2025 season so far<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas kicked off his 2025 campaign with a first-round exit at the Australian Open, crashing out in his opening match against Alex Michelsen. <\/p>\n<p>He briefly re-entered the ATP top ten after winning the Dubai Tennis Championships, but fell back down the rankings after failing to defend his Monte-Carlo title. <\/p>\n<p>At Roland Garros, he had his worst finish since 2018, losing in the second round, before announcing he would hire Ivanesevic as his new coach. <\/p>\n<p>Australian OpenRoland GarrosWimbledonUS OpenFirst RoundSecond RoundFirst Round\u2013Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 results at Grand Slams this season<\/p>\n<p>During the grass season, he featured at the Halle Open, winning just one match before suffering defeat again to Michelsen. <\/p>\n<p>His Wimbledon campaign ended abruptly in the first round, when he was forced to retire due to injury after going two sets down to Valentin Royer. <\/p>\n<p>Following another first-round exit at the Canadian Open, Tsitsipas will look to get back in the win column in Cincinnati. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas is having a difficult year on the ATP Tour this season, and recently parted ways with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6733,49,48,82,18693,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-58585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}