{"id":479940,"date":"2026-02-20T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479940\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:19:09","slug":"stefanos-tsitsipas-sends-public-message-to-andrey-rublev-after-losing-to-him-at-the-qatar-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479940\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas sends public message to Andrey Rublev after losing to him at the Qatar Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 promising run at the Qatar Open came to an end after losing to defending champion Andrey Rublev. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fifth seed Rublev defeated Tsitsipas in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5 to book his place in the semifinals at the ATP 500 tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Greek star had been enjoying a solid campaign in Doha, having secured wins over Moez Echargui and former world number one Daniil Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tsitsipas had no answer for Rublev, however, whom he sent a message to following their match.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by Tnani Badreddine\/DeFodi Images\/DeFodi via Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c46e9aece1fd7d2b1ec8c82f025a4503.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Tnani Badreddine\/DeFodi Images\/DeFodi via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas congratulates Andrey Rublev after the match<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Tsitsipas said: \u201cA positive week in Doha overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cCongrats to @AndreyRublev97 on a great match today. Onwards and upwards from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rublev tied with the head-to-head with Tsitsipas with his victory in the Qatar Open quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Russian has won their last two meetings on the ATP Tour, having emerged victorious in their last clash at the 2022 ATP Finals.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by Tnani Badreddine\/DeFodi Images\/DeFodi via Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/59222b3e74c7971f74e81a2aeb34fa3d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Tnani Badreddine\/DeFodi Images\/DeFodi via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 2026 season on the ATP Tour so far<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tsitsipas kicked off his 2026 season at the United Cup, where he came out on top in all three of his matches for Team Greece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He then crashed out in the first round of the Adelaide International, however, before exiting the Australian Open in round two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following two wins in the Davis Cup, Tsitsipas entered the Rotterdam Open, where he earned one victory before losing to Botic van de Zandschulp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Qatar Open marked his best tournament campaign of the season so far, with two triumphs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 promising run at the Qatar Open came to an end after losing to defending champion Andrey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[47638,21198,2934,211990,99,14907,428],"class_list":["post-479940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andrey-rublev","tag-atp-tour","tag-getty-images","tag-qatar-open","tag-sports","tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479940","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=479940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}