Stefanos Tsitsipas :
ranking, palmares and coach 2026

Tsitsipas reached two Grand Slam finals at Roland Garros (2021) and the Australian Open (2023), both times losing to Novak Djokovic. In Paris, after beating the likes of Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev, he came within a whisker of the Holy Grail when he led the Serbian legend by two sets to love in the final, eventually winning in five sets.

The contrast between his two finals and his recent run is striking: before the 2026 US Open, Tsitsipas had not gone beyond the second round in his last eight Grand Slam appearances. The US Open is by far his most stubborn major, the only one of the four where he has never reached the second week.
 

A unique and fascinating story

Stefanos Tsitsipas’ story with the Mouratoglou Academy is both unique and fascinating, as it was while watching match videos on YouTube that Patrick Mouratoglou ‘fell in love’ with the young Greek, then aged around 15, before taking him under his wing in 2015. He went on to explain that it was not so much his intrinsic level that attracted him as his incredible competitive spirit and, more generally, his incomparable aura on court. “I owe a large part of my success to the Mouratoglou Academy, which helped me to see tennis from a different perspective because it is very difficult to become a professional player by staying in Greece,” said Tsitsipas, who is obviously aware of his mentor’s Greek roots.

Since late June 2026 this story has taken an unprecedented turn: Tsitsipas has handed his coaching over to the Mouratoglou Academy. After a definitive split with his father Apostolos, who had coached him for most of his career, he is now coached day to day by Thomas Perrin, a coach at the academy, who travels with him throughout the season. Patrick Mouratoglou oversees the whole set-up: training programmes, match preparation, post-match analysis. He travelled to New York for the 2026 US Open, his first return to on-court coaching since Naomi Osaka.

“I confirm what Stefanos said in an interview: I will be part of the team. I will supervise the training, the matches, and I will work alongside Thomas Perrin,” Patrick Mouratoglou said on 3 July 2026.

Before them, Stefanos also benefited at the academy from the expertise of physical trainer Frédéric Lefebvre and physio Louis Fresneau. He was coached by Greece’s Dimitris Chatzinikolaou from August 2024 to early 2026, and briefly by Goran Ivanišević during the summer of 2025.

• Day-to-day coach: Thomas Perrin (Mouratoglou Academy), since late June 2026
  Supervision: Patrick Mouratoglou, since July 2026
  Physical training at the academy: Frédéric Lefebvre
  Physiotherapy at the academy: Louis Fresneau
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His game: creativity at the service of performance

In addition to efficiency, Stefanos Tsitsipas has added panache and flamboyance, armed with his attacking tennis and one-handed backhand that make him almost an anachronistic representative of tennis from another era, much to the delight of purists and nostalgic fans alike. His tennis creativity, which has few equals, is a reflection of his deep, thoughtful and inspired personality, which takes the codes of his time and puts his own stamp on them. He does exactly the same with his game.

His equipment

True to the Wilson brand, he plays with the Wilson Blade 98 (18×20 string pattern). His string is a Luxilon 4G monofilament (1.25 mm gauge).

This attacking style with a one-handed backhand is also what makes his rebuild demanding: it requires impeccable timing and physical condition, and leaves little margin on the days when the level dips. That is precisely the work opened up with the academy since the summer of 2026 — regaining consistency without giving up the risk-taking.

“It has been a complicated year. I have beaten several top players this year, but I have also lost to players ranked beyond 30th or 40th. That inconsistency is the worrying part,” he said himself before the 2026 US Open.