Tsitsipas eyes fresh start in 2026 after injury-hit season

Stefanos Tsitsipas, of Greece, during the archetypal circular of the US Open tennis tournament, Aug 26, 2025, successful New York. [AP]

Stefanos Tsitsipas said helium is hoping to rediscover his champion tennis successful 2026 aft a backmost wounded disrupted his run past year.

The erstwhile world fig three played lone two singles rubbers for Greece successful the Davis Cup successful September pursuing a second-round exit astatine the US Open the erstwhile month, earlier ⁠taking clip disconnected to ‍recover.

Tsitsipas, present ranked 36th, will pb Greece astatine the United Cup successful Perth and Sydney from January 2 to 11, the week earlier the ‌Australian Open.

“The past three oregon 4 tournaments of the play I could hardly clasp up,” ‌the 27-year-old told tournament ‌organizers.

“So it ‌was important to try and find something that will bring maine backmost again healthy.

“I did each the indispensable actions and took each the indispensable steps to rehabilitate and ⁠get backmost to what I retrieve myself being.”

Tsitsipas managed lone two wins astatine the majors past year, retiring successful the archetypal circular astatine ⁠Wimbledon.

In July, the 2021 French Open and 2023 Australian Open runner-up reunited with his begetter Apostolos arsenic manager aft ending a little stint ‌with Goran Ivanisevic, who helped Novak Djokovic assertion 9 of his 24 Grand Slam titles.

“I got truly frightened ‌after my US Open nonaccomplishment ‍with my back, due to the fact that I conscionable couldn’t walk for two days,” Tsitsipas said.

“When things similar that happen, you start reconsidering the ⁠future ‍of ​your career.

“That’s my biggest wish for 2026 – ‍to decorativeness matches and not person to think astir ​any issues regarding my back.”[Reuters]