Between an improvement in mentality and being a gladiator: tsitsipas flies high in Indian Wells

Stefanos Tsitsipas (9º of the ATP ranking) got into the Eighth Final of Indian Wells Masters 1000 After beating Italian Matteo Berrettini (29th) 6-3 and 6-3 in just an hour and nine minutes of play.

After a 2024 season that was far from being expected for the Greek, in this 2025 he could turn the page and, in the last month, he could see it with a remarkable improvement in the performances.

According to the Athenian, one of the keys is in the mentality. “I face these matches with determination and the will to leave everything on the court. I have seen improvements in my mentality, I do not want to leave anything for granted. I fight in each game as if it were a different chapter, a different story, regardless of what I have done before. I feel that I want to go out to the court and be a gladiator, and this is how each game I play”he said at the press conference after the overwhelming victory.

It was Berrettini himself who, surprised with the high level of his rival he cataloged him from having been “a perfect game.” However, Stef said the perfect game “really does not exist.” In this regard, he said: “I played a good game. I don’t know, The perfect game does not really exist. I guess he meant that I played well; Obviously I am very grateful for the words. There are definitely some things that I can consider the next time I can do better. “

While the 2025 start had not been the best, He had lost in the debut of the Australia and Doha Openthe truth is that in March Tsitsipas he met again with his best version and maintains an undefeated seven games after his title in Dubai.

In this sense, former number 3 of the ranking, valued the work he is doing with his coach Dimitris chatzinikolaou. “I am working very well with dimitris in recent months. I see many improvements in how I face the parties, but also in my work ethics both in the daily tennis sessions and in later. I feel that there are things that little by little I began to improve and to perfect“

For now, this Masters 1000 by Indian Wells is a good possibility to start recovering part of the land lost in the ranking especially if it takes you into account that above yours, the first three players that appear (Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud and Novak Djokovic) were already eliminated from the contest.

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