Stefanos Tsitsipas won his first match in a month as he ended his losing streak at the Madrid Open, but the match was marred by an argument with the chair umpire and several insults directed at his coach and father, Apostolos.<\/p>\n
Former world No 3 Tsitsipas<\/a> has endured a torrid time of late on the ATP Tour as he has slipped to No 80 in the ATP Rankings as, before this week\u2019s Madrid event, he had suffered four opening-round defeats in five tournaments<\/a>.<\/p>\n But he finally tasted success again on Thursday as he defeated lucky loser Patrick Kypson 3-6, 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-4) to secure a second-round clash against eighth seed Alexander Bublik.<\/p>\n But the match against world No 90 Kypson was not without drama as Tsitsipas received a couple of code violations for speaking to his coach Apostolos and he was eventually hit with a point penalty in the third set by chair umpire Marijana Veljovic with the American serving at 2-2, [15-0].<\/p>\n The official announced: \u201cCode violation, coaching, point penalty, Mr. Tsitsipas. 30-0.\u201d<\/p>\n She then explained to the Greek: \u201cIf he talks to you in between the points from the beginning until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n But Tsitsipas interrupted: \u201cDoes it bother my opponent? As far as I know, coaching is allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n Why Alcaraz & Sinner have \u2018big opportunity to get closer to Djokovic, Nadal, Federer\u2019 \u2013 Juan Martin Del Potro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Carlos Alcaraz made a mistake by leaving Juan Carlos Ferrero\u2019, claims Grand Slam winner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Veljovic replied: \u201cYes, discreet. Stefanos, if talks to you when you\u2019re on this side, when you\u2019re on that side \u2013 If he talks to you in the whole duration between the two points, that\u2019s just way too much.\u201d<\/p>\n The Greek hit back: \u201cDiscreet? Is he bothering my opponent?\u201d<\/p>\n Veljovic: \u201cNot at this moment, but it\u2019s against the rule.\u201d<\/p>\n Tsitsipas: \u201cYou said not to talk when I\u2019m on the other side of the court, which I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m actually doing. So why, when I\u2019m on my side, it\u2019s also not allowed?\u201d<\/p>\n Veljovic: \u201cIt\u2019s not allowed as much as he does it.\u201d<\/p>\n Tsitsipas: \u201cYou\u2019re just going to take a point like this from me because of some stupidity?\u201d<\/p>\n Veljovic: \u201cI have to. Didn\u2019t I tell you? I have to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n But his exchange with the umpire and his point penalty resulted in him losing his cool with his coach and father as he was overheard shouting insults in Greek at Apostolos, with whom he has had a difficult relationship<\/a>, on several occasions.<\/p>\n Some of those include \u201cBastard, you piece of s***\u201d, \u201cGo f*** yourself, imbecile\u201d, \u201cF*** off\u201d and \u201cstupid\u201d.<\/p>\n Tsitsipas eventually won the match in two hours and 41 minutes and admitted it was a much-needed victory.<\/p>\n \u201cI really needed that win,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt gives me confidence. I\u2019ve been trying a lot to improve different areas of my game, but when you\u2019re not getting wins, it\u2019s hard to build trust and belief in yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Madrid Open: Stefanos Tsitsipas hurls insults at his father, calls him stupid, and argues with umpire<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stefanos Tsitsipas won his first match in a month as he ended his losing streak at the Madrid Open, but the match was marred by an argument with the chair umpire and several insults directed at his coach and father, Apostolos. Former world No 3 Tsitsipas has endured a torrid time of late on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP News<\/h2>\n