{"id":75860,"date":"2022-05-01T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=67786"},"modified":"2022-05-01T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T17:30:02","slug":"tsitsipas-i-m-more-experienced-first-time-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/tsitsipas-i-m-more-experienced-first-time-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas: \u201cI\u2019m more experienced than my first time in Madrid\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the biggest attractions at the Mutua Madrid Open is<strong> Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/strong>. In recent seasons, the 2019 finalist has shown himself to be something of a clay specialist, coming close to his first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros (2021) and recently claiming the title in Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Athens native arrives in the Caja M\u00e1gica<strong> bidding to improve on his last-sixteen exit last year<\/strong> and aware that the idiosyncrasies of the Spanish capital always have a role to play. \u201cI arrived a bit earlier. It&#8217;s different clay court tennis. It doesn&#8217;t really feel as much of a clay court tournament because you are dealing mostly with altitude than the clay itself\u201d, said the 23-year-old player.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsitsipas, who was a quarter-finalist in Barcelona, his last event, where he lost to Carlos Alcaraz, discussed the keys to his adaptation to the new playing conditions. \u201c<strong>Swings are different. It&#8217;s a lot harder to open the court<\/strong>. You&#8217;re just dealing with higher balls and heavier balls. It&#8217;s more about trying to make that extra ball in the court deep and with a lot of precision\u201d, explained the Greek.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fourth seed, who will play his #MMOPEN opener against the winner of the clash between Frenchman Lucas Pouille and Karen Khachanov, feels like his progress in recent years has moved him up the tour hierarchy. \u201c<strong>I have better results. I have gained more experience and played more matches.<\/strong> I have seen certain scenarios more than I had when I first came here, and that is what I have in my portfolio. It&#8217;s up to me to see if I&#8217;m able to use that and utilise it in the best possible way\u201d, ended Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">The 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOPEN<\/a> runner-up has arrived in the Caja M\u00e1gica.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steftsitsipas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@steftsitsipas<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@atptour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9c4OiEPHkR\">pic.twitter.com\/9c4OiEPHkR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MutuaMadridOpen\/status\/1520481665314869249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest attractions at the Mutua Madrid Open is Stefanos Tsitsipas. In recent seasons, the 2019 finalist has shown himself to be something of a clay specialist, coming close to his first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros (2021) and recently claiming the title in Monte Carlo. The Athens native arrives in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,18,179],"tags":[41,11,17,105,686],"class_list":["post-75860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-tennis","category-mutua-news","category-tennis","tag-atp-en","tag-mmopen","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en","tag-stefanos-tsitsipas-en","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}