Stefanos Tsitsipas 'hungry for payback' over Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune

Stefanos Tsitsipas has claimed he wants to get "payback" on younger players after suffering a shock French Open fourth-round defeat to Holger Rune. The world No 4 has also suffered multiple losses to 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz this season and said he was now "hungry" to beat the teenagers.

Tsitsipas crashed out of the French Open in the round-of-16 after Rune dispatched him 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-4 on Monday. Last year's runner-up was full of fighting talk after the loss as he was asked about the emergence of young stars like his conqueror and Alcaraz after losing two matches to teenagers over the clay season.

The 23-year-old himself was one of the young players being touted as the next big thing not that long ago and said: "I mean it has to come at some point, it came for everyone, right? I'm not worried. I know my tennis, I know my game. These kids are going to want to beat me badly because obviously they are chasing. I'm chasing too, but I'm at a different kind of position than they are."

As well as his loss to Rune, the Greek star was also defeated by Alcaraz on the clay in Barcelona and earlier in the season in Miami, and he sent a warning to both young players. "I'm hungry to beat them too," he admitted. "Now that they have beat me I want pay back."

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Tsitsipas also made a salty remark about the Dane after his four-set defeat, claiming the 19-year-old played like "something was bothering him". "Well he's young, he plays with a lot of emotion. One-of-a-kind of an opponent I would say," he explained, assessing his conqueror.

"Like, very emotional opponent, always seems like something's bothering him when he plays. Actually that's how I saw it. It's kind