![]() ![]() “I think we’re blessed that we have three big champions like this. He feels that it is an honour to be involved in the era of all-time greats. I find it a very important part of my career, to have a player like him that will help me grow better and do bigger things, speaking for my game.” You have to be really involved and you have to be dedicated to the game when you play against him. He has made my levels of concentration higher and higher every single time I get to play him. Getting our asses kicked is for sure a very good lesson every single time. He’s very important for us that want to get to his point one day. This is very good for the sport, to have competitors like him, to have champions like him. I don’t see this as something, like, annoying. “Novak is a player that pushes you to your limits,” he said. Tsitsipas hopes that he will be able to get one over on the big names before they retire. Tsitsipas has tried to stay humble as he learns to cope with losing big matches.Īfter his Australian Open loss, Tsitsipas shared that he feels he can learn a lot from being defeated. He breaks down the game in a way that’s both impressive and inspiring,” Tsitsipas wrote. His impressive combination of understanding, analysis, empathy, and humility is always backed by thorough preparation. “Jim Courier’s tennis commentary is a pleasure to listen to. Tsitsipas suffered an early exit at Indian Wells and it seems that he has been watching tennis in his downtime.Ĭourier really made an impression on Tsitsipas who took to social media to share his thoughts. “Because while some of the things he asked for are still pie in the sky – the house with the tennis court, all of those things, it’s so completely unrealistic – but it was still done with the intention to help his competitors and I think that’s been lost in the shuffle.Stefanos Tsitsipas has let it be known that he is impressed and inspired by the tennis commentary of Jim Courier. That’s really important to note: he was helping the people that he’s going to compete against. “What he was asking for was help for the people that are going to try and beat him at the Australian Open. He was the one who had a balcony, he had access to the court for five hours a day to do his training and his off-court training. “What’s really important to remember is that Novak didn’t need any of the things that he was suggesting. “People need to keep this in perspective,” he says. Courier goes so far as to call it a “miscarriage of justice”. ![]() He says the backlash against world No.1 Novak Djokovic over his reported requests players in hard quarantine should have been moved to “private houses with tennis courts” was misguided. Will it be difficult to commentate on the game from so far away? It goes without saying this year’s Open will be different – about 1000 international players, support staff and officials have been in hotel quarantine, crowd numbers have been capped at 390,000 over the tournament’s two weeks, about half the average attendance, and physical distancing will be implemented in the stands.įor those watching at home, it will appear business as usual except Courier and his fellow commentators – Lleyton Hewitt, Todd Woodbridge and Chris Evert – will be watching the matches from high up in the skybox and not in their usual position in the bunker, which does not allow for social distancing. ![]() And, of course, The Royal Tenenbaums is just incredible.” But I quite enjoyed the movie about Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, with Emma Stone and Steve Carell. “I imagine it would be like trying to have a tennis player be in a movie about a ballet star. “It’s not an easy sport to fake if you haven’t been trained,” he says, laughing. Is it weird for him to watch actors play tennis on screen? ![]()
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