{"id":333028,"date":"2021-09-01T02:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stefanos-tsitsipas-long-breaks-still-dominating-conversation\/"},"modified":"2021-09-01T02:15:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:15:42","slug":"stefanos-tsitsipas-long-breaks-still-dominating-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stefanos-tsitsipas-long-breaks-still-dominating-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stefanos Tsitsipas&#8217; long breaks still dominating conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Stefanos Tsitsipas&#8217; long breaks still dominating conversation<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas wasn\u2019t playing at the U.S. Open on Tuesday, but he still was dominating the conversation. Players and press alike were obsessed over his long breaks and alleged coaching, whether he was just bending the rules or brazenly cheating.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray, after he lost to Tsitsipas in five sets in the first round Monday, ripped the 23-year-old for taking extended breaks during play in a match that lasted nearly five hours.<\/p>\n<p>Article I, Section W, Paragraph 4 of the 2021 Grand Slam rule book limits women (who play best-of-three-sets) to one <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> off court and men (best-of-five) to two trips \u201cfor a reasonable time for a toilet break, a change of attire break, or both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-seeded Alexander Zverev, who last week in Cincinnati accused Tsitsipas of getting mid-match coaching, joked that the third-seeded Greek star could \u201cgo to the moon and back on a toilet break,\u201d tactics he found unbecoming of a player of that stature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not normal,\u201d said Zverev, who won gold at the Tokyo Olympics and is riding a 12-match winning streak after cruising to a 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 first-round rout of American Sam Querrey on Tuesday. \u201cI do not believe that [Tsitsipas] needs to do that, because if you\u2019re top three in the world, you\u2019re one of the best in the sport. These kind of things h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en at junior events, at futures, at challengers maybe, but not when you\u2019re top three in the world. You are allowed to do that, but it\u2019s an unwritten rule between players.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/083121USopenAW36-e1630450999749.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Alexander Zverev seconded the negative comments made about Tsitsipas' breaks.\" class=\"wp-image-19307997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/083121USopenAW36-e1630450999749.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/083121USopenAW36-e1630450999749.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/083121USopenAW36-e1630450999749.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/083121USopenAW36-e1630450999749.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Alexander Zverev seconded the negative comments made about Tsitsipas\u2019 breaks.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Annie Wermiel\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s gone for 10-plus minutes. His dad is texting on the phone. He comes out, and all of a sudden his tactic completely changed. It\u2019s not just me but everybody saw it. The whole <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> plan changes. Either it\u2019s a very magical place he goes to, or there is communication there. But I also don\u2019t want to disrespect him. He\u2019s a great player. He\u2019s No. 3 in the world for a reason. \u2026 But I do believe, and Andy said it as well, there\u2019s some level of respect that everybody needs to have between players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray had said he lost respect for Tsitsipas after their first-round clash. American Reilly Opelka took a different tack entirely, pointing his finger at the press instead of another player. The big bearded Floridian, one of 15 Americans in the bottom half of the draw Tuesday, dispatched Kwon Soonwoo 7-6 (3), 6-4, 6-4 in the first round, then dissed the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a ridiculous. I understand it\u2019s getting press because tennis is lame and tennis media sucks and they\u2019re terrible,\u201d Opelka said. \u201cIt\u2019s hot and humid. And for the press that have never stepped foot on a tennis court in their life, never been in the environment, couldn\u2019t last 30 minutes out in this humidity, in this heat. It\u2019s physical, our sport is.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMy shoes are dripping, they\u2019re leaking sweat. \u2026 After two sets, we\u2019re drinking, we\u2019re hydrating a lot, we have to use the bathroom. To change my socks, shoes, my inserts in my shoes, shorts, shirt, everything, the whole 9 yards, hat, it takes 5, 6 minutes. Then by the time I walk to and from the court \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know Tsitsipas. I doubt he\u2019s getting coached. I highly doubt it. \u2026 I don\u2019t think we should have on-court coaching at all, but I strictly go to change because it\u2019s hot and it\u2019s humid. If people don\u2019t understand that, then clearly they\u2019ve never spent a day in the life of a professional athlete or come close to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Opelka was that sweaty, it was purely from the humidity, not the competition, as he needed just 1 hour 40 minutes to dispatch Soonwoo.<\/p>\n<p>Tied as the tallest ATP player ever at 6-foot-11, Opelka came into a Grand Slam seeded for the first time. He looked the part with 55 winners, 33 of them via aces. A powerful server with a power-forward frame, he reached 141 mph and hit more aces in the final set (14) than his foe did all day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuys know what I\u2019m doing out here. That\u2019s the beauty of it for me. They know what I\u2019m doing and I know that they know; but I\u2019m sticking to my guns, and if they can get by, too good,\u201d said Opelka, who will face Lorenzo Musetti in the second round. \u201cThat also helps keep me calm. I have a lot of clarity for what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 With AP<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Players and press alike were obsessed over his long breaks and alleged coaching, whether he was just bending the rules or brazenly cheating. 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