Parikiaki meets 18 year old Greek Tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Boodles tournament listen to interview

Our Michael Yiakoumi had the opportunity to meet and interview the 18 year old rising tennis star Greek no 1 Stefanos Tsitsipas seeded 31 at Wimbledon the interview took place at the Boodles tournament at Stoke Park hotel after he had just beaten British tennis player James Ward 7-5 6-1.

Stefanos Tsitsipas born 12 August 1998) is a professional tennis player from Greece and the current Greek No. 1. Tsitsipas is a former junior No. 1 and is currently the second youngest player in ATP top 100.

Tsitsipas has a career high ATP singles ranking of 35 achieved on 18 June 2018, which makes him the best Greek male tennis player in the Open Era and the only one to have been ranked in the top 100. On 24 July 2017, he peaked at world number 315 in the ATP doubles rankings. Tsitsipas has won a total of five ITF singles Futures titles as well as six ITF doubles Futures titles so far in his career. His main career highlights include being the junior number 1 in the world. Tsitsipas has also had many successful matches on the junior tour, winning The Boy’s Wimbledon doubles event with his partner Kenneth Raisma in 2016.

Tsitsipas is the son of a Greek father, Apostolos Tsitsipas and a Russian mother, former pro-tennis player Yuliya Salnikova-Tsitsipas. His grandfather, Sergei Salnikov, was a Soviet football player and manager.

Listen to the interview below