{"id":68888,"date":"2025-08-14T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68888\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:34:11","slug":"the-two-atp-players-being-branded-as-serial-losers-in-early-stages-after-shock-defeats-at-the-cincinnati-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68888\/","title":{"rendered":"The two ATP players being branded as \u2018serial losers in early stages\u2019 after shock defeats at the Cincinnati Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cincinnati Open has seen many of the high-profile names advance to the fourth round stage, with players like Jannik Sinner preparing to stake their claim for a quarter-final place.<\/p>\n

Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Taylor Fritz have all advanced to the fourth round relatively comfortably, aside from Alcaraz\u2019s scare against Damir Dzumhur<\/a> in the second round.<\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by Matthew Stockman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Other lesser-known players, such as Terence Atmane<\/a>, have shocked the Cincinnati Open crowds by defeating higher-ranked players on their way to the fourth round.<\/p>\n

Two players who have struggled all year continued to suffer in Cincinnati<\/a>, as both competitors lost before the fourth round stage.<\/p>\n

The pair have since been branded \u2018serial losers in the early stages\u2019 of tournaments due to their poor form in 2025.<\/p>\n

David Law says Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas have become \u2018serial losers in early stages\u2019 of tournaments<\/p>\n

Both Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas have struggled for form during the 2025 ATP season.<\/p>\n

The pair have plummeted down the rankings. Medvedev, a former world number one, is currently ranked 15 in the world, while Tsitsipas, formerly world number three, is ranked 29.<\/p>\n

Both players have struggled on and off the court, with Tsitsipas re-hiring his father after ending a two-month partnership with Goran Ivanisevic<\/a>, and Medvedev only winning one Grand Slam match the entire year.<\/p>\n

They both continued to falter at the Cincinnati Open. Tsitsipas lost in the third round to unseeded Benjamin Bonzi, while Medvedev was defeated by Adam Walton at the first hurdle.<\/p>\n

\"DaniilPhoto by Matthew Stockman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Their issues were recently discussed by tennis journalists Matt Roberts, Catherine Whitaker and David Law on The Tennis Podcast.<\/p>\n

Tennis journalist Matt Roberts said:\u00a0\u201cAgain different reasons, but kind of the same overarching take that neither of them are the players they used to be and it\u2019s hard to see them getting back up to that point again given the new talent that\u2019s emerged since their decline and given just the eye test when you watch them play now.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedvedev is the one who I saw here against Adam Walton, and he\u2019s already lost nine matches this year against players outside of the top 50. The last time he lost that many was 2017. Most in a year since then had been five.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo just look at the numbers and the sort of players that are beating Medvedev: it points to a pretty steep decline, and last year we talked about it with his game and how his serve wasn\u2019t as threatening. How he was struggling to make impacts in the court with his shots. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut he kept having good Slam results. His slam results last year were actually really good and they sort of propped him up. Well this year the slam results have been really poor, and the general form on the tour has been poor, and this is where we are now with Daniil Medvedev, who is just constantly, for me, on upset watch, but it\u2019s no longer an upset. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how I go into every tournament now, thinking about him and thinking about Tsitsipas as well. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re big names still in the sport. I\u2019m kind of drawn to their matches because there is a part of me that thinks \u2019okay these two have been such good players, let\u2019s see.\u2019 But inevitably they\u2019re losing early and it\u2019s not a surprise now.\u201d<\/p>\n

BBC commentator David Law added:\u00a0\u201cI just feel like they\u2019re serial losers in early stages now to people that would never have got near them, and I do think aura is part of that as well. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just the basics of your forehands and your backhands. I mean, I think you could look at all of them and think that they might say \u2018well I\u2019m not doing this as well, I\u2019m not doing that as well.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they are not carrying themselves in quite the way they used to and the opponents are not looking at them in the way they used to. They\u2019re thinking, if I hang around here, I\u2019ve got a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniil Medvedev has not won an ATP Tour title since 2023<\/p>\n

At the start of 2023, Daniil Medvedev was in the form of his life.<\/p>\n

The Russian star won five ATP Tour titles in the first half of the year, including two Masters 1000 triumphs in Miami and Rome.<\/p>\n

However, since winning the 2023 Italian Open, Medvedev has failed to win another title. <\/p>\n

\"DaniilPhoto by Jason Heidrich\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He has reached three finals since, at Los Cabos in 2023, Monte-Carlo in 2024 and Halle in 2025.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Stefanos Tsitsipas has continued to prove his title winning capabilities, having captured his 12th ATP Tour title at the 2025 Dubai Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Open has seen many of the high-profile names advance to the fourth round stage, with players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[11933,49,48,26217,16151,43400,24455,82,18693,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-68888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp-tennis-players","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cincinnati-open","12":"tag-daniil-medvedev","13":"tag-david-law","14":"tag-matt-roberts","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","17":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68888","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=68888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}