{"id":100459,"date":"2025-08-29T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100459\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:22:08","slug":"next-time-dont-wonder-why-i-hit-you-tsitsipas-rages-at-opponents-underarm-serves-us-open-tennis-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100459\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Next time, don\u2019t wonder why I hit you\u2019: Tsitsipas rages at opponent\u2019s underarm serves | US Open Tennis 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A frustrated Stefanos Tsitsipas took exception to his opponent\u2019s tactics after blowing a match point and exiting the US Open in the second round courtesy of a five-set loss to Daniel Altmaier on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 7-6 (5), 1-6, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 defeat means the former world No 3 Tsitsipas will end the season without playing in the third round of a grand slam for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Altmaier deployed the legal but rarely used underarm serve a few times as he rallied in the fourth set and Tsitsipas let the German know he did not approve as the pair shook hands at the end of a contest that lasted four hours and 26 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cNext time, don\u2019t wonder why I hit you, OK? No, I\u2019m just saying if you serve underarm &#8230; if you serve underarm,\u201d Tsitsipas told Altmaier, implying he had targeted the German\u2019s body during the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The crowd booed as the German world No 56 backed away with his hand raised refusing to engage in the discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tsitsipas, a former finalist at the Australian and French Opens, parted ways with his coach Goran Ivanisevic and brought his father, Apostolos, back on board last month in an attempt to arrest a worrying decline in his game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 27-year-old has not won back-to-back matches since the Barcelona Open in April and has sunk to 28th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A frustrated Stefanos Tsitsipas took exception to his opponent\u2019s tactics after blowing a match point and exiting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-100459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}