Stefanos Tsitsipas is currently in Stuttgart, where he will face Richard Gasquet in his opening match. The Greek sensation arrived in Germany after spending some quality time with his new girlfriend and fellow tennis player Paula Badosa in Dubai.
Here is the video of Stefanos testing his backhand down the line.
Stefanos Tsitsipas in 2023
Currently ranked no.5, Tsitsipas played his last match on the 6th of June when he was defeated by world no.2 Carlos Alcaraz 6-2 6-1 7-6(5) in the quarter of the French Open (draw).
Currently, during this year the Greek has an overall 31-9 match record. Stefanos Tsitsipas’s most significant performance of the current year was reaching the final at the Australian Open and Barcelona.
Gasquet in Stuttgart, ranking, and results in 2023
Ranked world no.55, Richard has achieved a compiled 14-15 record in 2023. Richard is now playing in Stuttgart where he managed to beat the world no.75 Christopher Eubanks 7-62 6-4.
Richard Gasquet will come up against the world no.5 Stefanos Tsitsipas in the 2nd round. Their head to head is 1-1.
The French player has won 1 title in 2023 in Auckland.
Richard won 16 titles in his career: 3 on hard courts, 3 on clay courts, 6 on indoor courts, 1 on carpet courts and 3 on grass courts. (See the list of his titles)
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Richard Gasquet faced off only on 2 occasions. Their actual record is 1-1. Previously, the last time they locked horns, Richard Gasquet won 7-6(2) 7-6(4) in the quarter in Hertogenbosch (Ricoh Open) in June 2018.