THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

June 30, 2025

Stefanos Tsitsipas

Press Conference

V. ROYER/S. Tsitsipas

6-3, 6-2 [ret.]

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English, please.

Q. Stefanos, can you just tell us what happened to you on court?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: It's tough to describe. I mean, I'm battling many wars these days. It's really painful to see myself in a situation like this.

One thing that I absolutely hate doing is retiring or stopping a match, but I've never pictured myself being in a situation like this multiple times since the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin a couple of years back.

Since that time, I've been very fragile with my body, and I've been battling a war of feeling healthy and feeling comfortable going to the extremes, which has been a difficult battle. So I really don't know.

I mean, I feel completely -- I feel like I'm left without answers. I don't know. I've tried everything. I've done an incredible job with my fitness. I've done an incredible job with my physiotherapy, so I've maximized on everything that I possibly can do.

Right now I'm just absolutely left with no answers. I don't know what to do.

Q. How did it go during your training with Goran?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: Oh, he's great. We're having a great time. I am very disappointed that I wasn't able to show my potential the way I deserve to play on the court. It's not easy. It's not easy.

I feel like even if he gives me the most amount of confidence in the world, if I don't feel comfortable, if I don't feel good with myself and my body, then I can't really show anything.

Q. Stefanos, how were you feeling in the beginning of the tournament? Did you ever think that things could go this way?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: I was playing good tennis. I was happy with the way I was playing. I felt like I had a good chance at Wimbledon. I really don't know what can I say else. It's tough to wrap my head around what happened.

Q. But physically?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: Physically there was one day that I wasn't well. It creates a lot of frustration, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of whys and how and when.

It's probably the most difficult situation that I've ever been faced with, because it's an ongoing issue that doesn't seem to be disappearing or fading off as much. Myself, as a person, I have a limit at some point, so I'll definitely have to have my final answer on whether I want to do stuff or not in the next couple of months.

This is going to be hard, but if I see it going in that trajectory, there is no point at competing. If I'm not healthy, and I've talked about health so many times, if health is not there, then your whole tennis life becomes miserable.

Q. Stefanos, what was the actual specific problem today, if you can explain that?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: Well, I'm pretty sure if you look at the Nitto Finals two, three years ago when I had to retire against Holger, you'll understand that it's one of those injuries that you can't be taking lightly, because your whole -- tennis is a rotational sport, and if you can't rotate, then there's no reason playing it.

It's something that I've been dealing with for many years now, my lower left side back. It's exactly what Arthur Fils went through the last couple of weeks playing at the French Open. I feel like it can be a very tricky injury.

Q. Is it something that a break would help with, or is it surgery? Is that a possibility?

STEFANOS TSITSIPAS: No, surgery would definitely be not an option, and the damage has been done already. It's very unfortunate, because I remember saying to myself that something bad might happen, and I had a small burnout in that particular part of the season when I played Davis Cup and had to go to China a few weeks later.

I remember saying that something bad might happen if I played for so many weeks in a row. I played a lot of weeks in a row. I didn't do well at the US Open, but I still played a lot, practiced a lot. So that was the time in the period that that happened. So just to show you that the tour can be very taxing on your body.