2022 Monte-Carlo Masters crowned the same champion as last year as Stefanos Tsitsipas lifted the trophy in Monaco.
Stefanos Tsitsipas seems unstoppable at the Monte-Carlo Masters, as the Greek triumphed at the ATP Masters 1000 event for the second year in a row. He continues to prove that he's a really solid clay-court player and will aim to finish the year high in the ATP Rankings again.
Currently, Tsitsipas is fifth in the ATP Rankings behind Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev, and Rafael Nadal. However, in the ATP Race the story is different.
Rafael Nadal, who was unstoppable at the beginning of the season, is first, but right behind him is Stefanos Tsitsipas, who has a 500-point lead over third Carlos Alcaraz and fourth Daniil Medvedev.
After winning the tournament, Tsitsipas was very happy, and dissected why clay makes it possible for him to succeed, as the Monte-Carlo Masters could easily be considered his lucky tournament.
"I have a surface that I might be adjusting easier to than other surfaces and we know which one that is. My goal ever since I have realised that… is if I'm able to score points [on] this surface as much as I can and really concentrate on the other surfaces a bit more, I can really pull off a great year, maybe even finishing among the two best tennis players at the end of the season."
"I’m always trying to bring the best I can from clay and adjust accordingly to the other surfaces. I really want to be doing well on hard and grass this year, because I feel like I can really get a lot of points there."
However, the Greek player knows that to fulfil a dream of many tennis players, and reach the world no. 1 rank, he needs to be good on all surfaces, and that's what he aims to do, with the ranking goal in his mind.
"If I'm able to win matches with the same consistency I do on this surface, I think I have a big chance of finishing the year [in] the top two, which is a huge goal of mine to be finally there and belong in that special group of players."
"My tennis is great I think everywhere, with clay maybe being the surface that I can adjust [to] the best. I have had moments where I was trying to apply what I apply on clay on hard. Doesn't really seem to be working much. Sometimes it's not really the way to go."
"But this has also [taught] me a lot that I should adjust and I should never really become obsessive that, ‘Okay, whatever works on clay should work on faster surfaces’."