Backhand changes? Too much pressure? What went wrong for Stefanos Tsitsipas against Holger Rune at French Open?

Stefanos Tsitsipas saw his hopes of a deep French Open run ended by 19-year-old Holger Rune. The fourth seed, who made the final last year, was beaten 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-4 in a stunning last-16 upset. Ad/> Tsitsipas was fancied to go far after being placed on the other side of the draw to Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz.

Roland-GarrosRublev reaches quarter-finals after Sinner retires with knee injury3 HOURS AGO However, he said after defeat to Rune that he was “nervous and emotional” on court and struggled to find his “rhythm”. Two-time French Open finalist Alex Corretja thinks the Greek needs to make adjustments on his backhand side to improve. “He was struggling through the whole match.

He was losing a bit his momentum and his tactics. Rune stuns Tsitsipas to make quarter-finals What was in Swiatek's notebook? “With the backhand side he struggles because he doesn’t move his wrist as much as he should and that’s why Rune was hitting so hard to his backhand. “I also feel that if Tsitsipas wants to play against these guys who hit the ball so hard he needs to know how to slice better.

If you defend in front it’s bad, you need to let the ball come to you, then you can get it back into the other slowly to give you time to recover, if you hit it harder you have no time. With a two-handed backhand it’s easier, that’s why he was complaining about his return too.” Tsitsipas had already been pushed hard at the tournament, fighting back from two sets down to beat Lorenzo Musetti in the first round. He also slammed his racquet to the ground after overcoming Zdenek Kolar in four sets in the second round.