Stefanos Tsitsipas is doing everything he can to support his brother Petros, but helping him have a wild card for Marseille’s main draw doesn’t seem a good idea. Petros Tsitsipas has a world no.960 career-high and he has huge difficulties in winning matches even in the early round of (very) minor tournaments. The move was slammed as sheer nepotism and this is something extremely detrimental for Stefanos and also and especially his brother Petros.
This is Petros Tsitsipas‘ record.
Nepotism in tennis and the cases of Djokovic and Osaka
Nepotism is never a good look and it is often slammed in tennis especially when wildcards are awarded to siblings of famous tennis players.
Novak Djokovic is often unfairly criticized by the media for many things, but it was difficult to side with him when he lobbied to make his brother Marko receive a series of wild cards. Eventually, that ended badly also for his brother that was continuously slammed for this.
Once even Mari Osaka, Naomi’s sister, received a controversial wild card for the Miami Open’s main draw in 2019 that resolved in a very predictable straight-set loss. The result was just attracting bad attention. This is what happens.
Petros Tsitsipas is a worse tennis player than Mari Osaka https://t.co/Nz0RCqbslt
— Yonis (@lastdanceszn) March 5, 2021
Mari Osaka / Petros Tsitsipas should team up for mixed doubles at Roland Garrod https://t.co/95jKwUONp8
— Team Zverev (@zverev_team) March 5, 2021
It is nice that Stefanos helps his brother Petros playing doubles together, but it would be better for them not to “force” these wild cards especially for Petros’ sake.
These were some of the comments on social media with a poll of how many games Petros can win in the first round in Marseille.
lol to that Petros Tsitsipas WC
— jimmy soixante-dix (@hotdog6969) March 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/lauriemac123/status/1367883323989577733?s=20
Shambles!!!!!!
— Craig Veal (@craigveal90) March 5, 2021
Petros Tsitsipas recibió WC al ATP de Marseille que cosas raras que pasan en el circuito.
— Manu Arriagada (@Manu30746016) March 5, 2021
Los números de Petros Tsitsipas, 960 del mundo.
¿No hay nadie mejor al que darle una oportunidad? Vale… pic.twitter.com/MRmWmOn4TO
— IM (@IMI777_) March 5, 2021
How embarrassing is it that a player who clearly not even has the futures level, gets a wildcards because he has a famous tennis brother. Just so sad
— luukvangendt (@luukvangendt) March 5, 2021
Tsitsipas in Rotterdam, ranking, and results in 2021
At the moment ranked no.6, Stefanos achieved a compiled 9-1 win-loss record in 2021. Stefanos is now competing in Rotterdam where he beat Egor Gerasimov 7-64 7-5, Hubert Hurkacz 6-4 4-6 7-5 and Karen Khachanov 4-6 6-3 7-5.
Stefanos Tsitsipas will compete against Rublev in the semifinal. Their actual record is 3-3.
The Greek won 5 titles in his career: 1 on clay courts and 4 on indoor courts. (See the list of his titles)
Petros Tsitsipas
Tsitsipas played his last match on the 24th of December 2020 when he lost to Kaichi Uchida 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in (draw).
