Stefanos Tsitsipas didn't go all the way at Roland Garros as he once again ran into a rising star that proved better.
Last year's Roland Garros saw him eliminated in the 4th round by Holger Rune who simply overwhelmed him with his style of play. This year's Roland Garros for him finished after a match against Carlos Alcaraz with the Spaniard again dominating quite similarly to the way Rune dominated in the rallies last year.
It wasn't a very aggressive match from Tsitsipas who once again played a bit too reserved which is problematic against this young and up-and-coming player that play the most aggressive tennis we ever saw. The backhand was a really big target for Alcaraz in the match but Tsitsipas greatly held. There wasn't fire in his game and he might have an explanation for that.
Well, guys, I don't have a lot of things to tell you. He played great. I mean, I don't think he played exceptional, but he played great. One thing that I'm going to try to avoid in the future is have melatonin pills and naps before matches because it clearly doesn't seem to be working.
As one of the players that played a night match at the event, Tsitsipas struggled to really organize his sleeping patterns well. He admitted that the melanin pills were mostly to do with that, just trying to reverse the ruined sleep schedule due to the tricky schedule.
The schedule has been a little bit difficult the last few days. I had some late-night sessions. Not super late, but late enough for me to kind of have my sleep schedule ruined, in a way. You know, sleep is a very vital important thing, and recovery is "the"most important thing when competing and playing big slams like this. So I've made the mistake in the past before playing Novak in Bercy one year, and I had the exact same scores I did in those first two sets. So I feel like melatonin really likes 1 and 2.
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