Former world quantity three Stefanos Tsitsipas says his father Apostolos will not be his coach.
The 25-year-old from Greece, ranked eleventh on the earth, was crucial of his father’s teaching strategies after shedding to Japan’s former world quantity 4 Kei Nishikori within the second spherical of the Canadian Open on Thursday.
Tsitsipas, saying the tip of the teaching relationship, stated the choice “to let this chapter and this part shut” was taken by mutual settlement.
He added his father would proceed to journey with him to supply assist and help off the courtroom.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I inform you that my co-operation with my father as a coach has come to an finish,” Tsitsipas stated on X.
“I favor to maintain my father in his function as a father, and solely as a father.”
After shedding to Nishikori, who’s ranked 576th on the earth, Tsitsipas said he was “really disappointed”, external in his father on the subject of listening to him and offering suggestions.
Tsitsipas, who’s a former runner-up on the Australian Open and French Open, indicated he felt remorse about his post-match feedback.
“I realised I used to be fallacious to speak to my father the way in which I did,” Tsitsipas added on Friday.
“I’ve trusted my father with the teaching function for therefore a few years and I think about our partnership successful.
“I am unsure who will take over, and I am not able to determine but.”