{"id":15707,"date":"2025-07-17T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15707\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:25:11","slug":"patrick-mouratoglou-responds-when-asked-if-stefanos-tsitsipas-can-ever-win-a-grand-slam-in-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15707\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mouratoglou responds when asked if Stefanos Tsitsipas can ever win a Grand Slam in his career\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas has endured a tricky start to his 2025 campaign as he continues to tumble down the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek star was once ranked number three in the world but now sits outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a> top 25, at 27th.<\/p>\n<p>Except for one stunning week in the UAE, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/paula-badosa-and-naomi-osaka-react-as-stefanos-tsitsipas-wins-the-dubai-tennis-championships\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsitsipas won the Dubai Tennis Championships<\/a>, the 26-year-old has largely struggled for form in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas has won just one of his four matches at Grand Slams this year, losing in the first round of the Australian Open and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wimbledon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a> and the second round of the French Open.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222905646-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanos Tsitsipas and Valentin Royer shake hands after their first-round match at Wimbledon.\" class=\"wp-image-106778\" \/>Photo by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/stefanos-tsitsipas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsitsipas<\/a> begins the long road back to the top of the men\u2019s game, one top tennis coach has revealed whether he thinks he can still win a Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mouratoglou says it is \u2018difficult to imagine\u2019 Stefanos Tsitsipas winning a Grand Slam<\/p>\n<p>During the latest episode of \u2018All on the table\u2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/nick-kyrgios\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Kyrgios<\/a> asked Patrick Mouratoglou if he believes Tsitsipas can win a major.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, it is difficult to believe because the two other guys [Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz] are so much better than anyone, and he is not at his level himself, so it is difficult to imagine,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/patrick-mouratoglou\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mouratoglou<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in today\u2019s game, if you want to win a Grand Slam, you cannot have a weakness. It is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys will kill you on your weakness, so he has to really strengthen his game if he wants to have a chance. Maybe on clay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Training at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy, Tsitsipas has spent a lot of time with Mouratoglou throughout his career, as the Frenchman knows just how much talent the 26-year-old possesses.<\/p>\n<p>Talent isn\u2019t everything, though, something Tsitsipas\u2019s coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/goran-ivanisevic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goran Ivanisevic<\/a> mentioned in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2221876367-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanos Tsitsipas looks on ahead of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships\" class=\"wp-image-112801\" \/>Photo by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all \u2018I want it, I want it\u2019 but he isn\u2019t doing anything about it. He has to resolve his back issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked. I\u2019ve never seen such an underprepared player in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ivanisevic\u2019s comments came off the back of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/stefanos-tsitsipas-says-how-hes-feeling-about-his-new-coach-goran-ivanisevic-after-his-shock-early-exit-at-wimbledon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsitsipas\u2019 first-round retirement at Wimbledon<\/a>, where he struggled with his back.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell if Tsitsipas can win a Grand Slam title in his career, but as his dreams slowly drift away, he may begin to reminisce about a golden opportunity he let slip through his fingers four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas was one set away from winning a Grand Slam<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas made a strong start in Paris four years ago, qualifying for his maiden Grand Slam final with wins over four seeded players.<\/p>\n<p>Round OpponentSeedScoreSFAlexander Zverev6th6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3QFDaniil Medvedev2nd6-3, 7-6, 7-54RPablo Carreno Busta12th6-3, 6-2, 7-53RJohn Isner31st5-7, 6-3, 7-6, 6-12RPedro Martinez\u20136-3, 6-4, 6-31RJeremy Chardy\u20137-6, 6-3, 6-1Stefanos Tsitsipas at the 2021 French Open<\/p>\n<p>Standing between Tsitsipas and the French Open title was Serbia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>, then an 18-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n<p>Winning an intense first set, it was Tsitsipas who took the lead, 7-6 [8-6] when his opponent made two unforced errors at the end of the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taking his game to another level in the second, Tsitsipas began to dominate Djokovic on Court Philippe Chatrier, racing into a 7-6, 6-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek star was just a set away from becoming a Grand Slam champion, but unfortunately for Tsitsipas, Djokovic wasn\u2019t done yet.<\/p>\n<p>Battling back as he so often does, Djokovic took the third and fourth sets 6-3, 6-2, sending the 2021 French Open final into a decider.<\/p>\n<p>There, the experience of Djokovic shone through, breaking in the third game of the fifth set and holding onto his advantage to win a thriller in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat was devastating for Tsitsipas, as he missed out on a chance to become the first Greek Grand Slam champion by a single set.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1323418266-1024x636.jpg\" alt=\"Stefanos Tsitsipas and Novak Djokovic embrace after the 2021 French Open final\" class=\"wp-image-94462\" \/>Photo by John Berry\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas returned to play Djokovic in another Grand Slam final at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/australian-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> two years later, but failed to provide a sustained challenge, as he lost out in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if Tsitsipas can make it back to a Grand Slam final, but it will certainly be something to look out for in the future.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas has endured a tricky start to his 2025 campaign as he continues to tumble down the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,10297,99,14907,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-15707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-patrick-mouratoglou","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}