{"id":10029,"date":"2025-07-01T01:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T05:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/injured-stefanos-tsitsipas-finishes-wimbledon-and-leave-without-answers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T05:56:40","slug":"injured-stefanos-tsitsipas-finishes-wimbledon-and-leave-without-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/injured-stefanos-tsitsipas-finishes-wimbledon-and-leave-without-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Stefanos Tsitsipas finishes Wimbledon and &#8220;leave without answers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wimbledon, England &#8212; Greece&#8217;s Stefanos Zitzpas said he has no answer to his ongoing fitness issues after being forced to retire from Wimbledon&#8217;s first round match on Monday due to a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>Old World No. 3 Tsitsipas, sowed 24th in London, followed 6-3, 6-2 to French qualifiers Valentin Royer when they deemed sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been fighting a lot of wars recently,&#8221; said Tsitsipas, who finished second in the Grand Slam event. &#8220;It&#8217;s really painful to see myself in a situation like this. It feels like the answer is gone. I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;ve tried everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did an incredible job in my fitness. I&#8217;ve done an incredible job in physical therapy, so I maximized everything I could. Now I have absolutely no answers left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0630%2Fr1513095_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0630%2Fr1513095_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0630%2Fr1513095_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0630%2Fr1513095_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Tsitsipas said he has suffered from declining injuries since withdrawing from the ATP Tour Finals in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He has only reached one quarter in the last nine Grand Slam tournaments, and his hopes to play in the US seem at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas, who recently started working with Novak Djokovic&#8217;s former coach Golan Ivanisevic, said: \u201cThere are restrictions at some point so I definitely need my final answer as to whether I want to do something in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tennis is a spinning sport. If you can&#8217;t spin, there&#8217;s no reason to play it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon, England &#8212; Greece&#8217;s Stefanos Zitzpas said he has no answer to his ongoing fitness issues after being forced to retire from Wimbledon&#8217;s first round match on Monday due to a back injury. Old World No. 3 Tsitsipas, sowed 24th in London, followed 6-3, 6-2 to French qualifiers Valentin Royer when they deemed sufficient. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3153,2065,296,104,1231,24,1232,1790],"class_list":{"0":"post-10029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-answers","9":"tag-finishes","10":"tag-injured","11":"tag-leave","12":"tag-stefanos","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tsitsipas","15":"tag-wimbledon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}