Stefanos Tsitsipas is set to “create some lovely recollections” on the inaugural United Cup.
The No.4 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings is already attaining that purpose, even earlier than taking to the courtroom for his first match.
Tsitsipas visited Perth’s picturesque Rottnest Island yesterday, the place he performed seashore tennis and loved native delicacies for lunch alongside team-mates Despina Papamichail and Valentini Grammatikopoulou.
Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Despina Papamichail pose on the seashore on Rottnest Island. Photo Credit: Paul Kane/Getty Images.
The Team Greece members additionally captured selfies with quokkas, small animals which can be distinctive to the island.
“I’ve liked coming again (to Rottnest Island),” mentioned Tsitsipas, who had beforehand visited the favored Western Australia vacationer vacation spot in 2019.
“I had the chance 4 years in the past and it has all the time occupied my thoughts. I’ve been fascinated with how cool that have was, attending to see the quokkas and take some photographs with them.
“It’s good to attach tennis with nature and zone out just a little bit earlier than the competitors begins. It’s been good getting the chance to discover wildlife and see the attractive sights of Western Australia that you just don’t get to see if you’re competing on the tennis courtroom.”
Team Greece stroll alongside the seashore at Parakeet Bay on Rottnest Island.
The United Cup, a mixed-team occasion consisting of 18 nations, begins tomorrow with round-robin matches in Perth, Brisbane and Sydney.
Each United Cup tie includes two males’s and two girls’s singles matches, in addition to one combined doubles match, performed throughout two days.
Four nations will advance to the knockout stage in Sydney, which runs from 6-8 January.
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Team Greece, which additionally consists of WTA World No.6 Maria Sakkari, are the event’s prime seeds.
“It’s an thrilling occasion,” Tsitsipas mentioned. “For us, as Team Greece, I feel is the perfect alternative to point out our greatest tennis. We have an important girls’s group and on the similar time, an important males’s group.”
Although Tsitsipas is assured that Team Greece can problem for the United Cup title, he reiterated their instant focus was on round-robin clashes with Bulgaria and Belgium in coming days.
“Over confidence could be a difficulty, by which case, we’re extraordinarily cautious to remain humble,” he mentioned.
“We must be disciplined sufficient to point out up and convey our greatest tennis each day. This is extra of a marathon that we’re heading in the direction of and never a dash. (But) we’re right here for the long term.”
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