For young tennis players, dealing with injuries is not easy. Beyond being an established Top 10 player and successful player, Stefanos Tsitsipas is no exception. The Greek gave details of the ordeal he had to go through due to his elbow problem during the 2021 season and released a harsh sentence: “In Turin I thought about quitting tennis.”
“I didn’t enjoy playing anymore. I couldn’t compete at the level I had set for myself and in Turin (ATP Finals), a few days before the operation, the pain was so bad that i thought no specialist could help me. It was a problem that had dragged on for a long time and at that time I even thought about quitting tennis. I was in a very bad moment emotionally ”, released the No. 5 in the world in the Indian Wells preview
At the same time, Tsitsipas He stated that he was able to get ahead and that the results were better than he expected at the beginning of the year: “My doctor expected the season to start in April, on clay. He didn’t think he could play in Australia let alone reach the semi-finals. I even played the ATP Cup before, you can say it was a bit of a miracle,” stressed the semifinalist of the first Major of the season and also a finalist in Rotterdam in 2022.
Lastly, he maintained that now the important thing for him is to continue to recover his confidence and motivation, something that the injury took away from him and had left him with great impotence. For Tsitsipas, winning Indian Wells would be a huge boost in his quest for a Grand Slam.
