Stefanos Tsitsipas will drop to his lowest ATP Ranking in almost seven years after a stunning French Open exit to world No 167 Matteo Gigante.<\/p>\n
Greek star Tsitsipas<\/a>, the 20th seed at Roland Garros<\/a>, was beaten 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 by Gigante out on Court Simonne-Mathieu, the Italian saving multiple break points as he closed out the match.<\/p>\n It is just the second time that Gigante has played at a Grand Slam tournament and the first time he has reached the third round of a major tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel very, very good for sure,\u201d said Gigante on court. \u201cIt was a fight. He\u2019s an amazing player, so I play very well and I\u2019m very happy.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the fruit of the job that I do every day. I say thank you to my team and nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n Iga Swiatek ends Emma Raducanu\u2019s French Open hopes as stunning Grand Slam streak continues<\/a><\/p>\n Former world No 1 asked which young stars could stop\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner<\/a><\/p>\n Having come through qualifying to reach the third round of Roland Garros, world No 167 Gigante is projected to rise to 129th in the ATP Rankings, eclipsing his previous career-high of world No 132.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old will face 13th seed Ben Shelton in round three on Friday, with the American having received a walkover into the third round of the event following the withdrawal of Hugo Gaston.<\/p>\n Gigante is the first qualifier in 17 years to defeat a former French Open finalist in the men\u2019s singles, following Eduardo Schwank\u2019s win over Carlos Moya back in 2008.<\/p>\n However, while it was joy for Gigante, a stunning defeat to an opponent 147 places below him in the ATP Rankings cements Tsitsipas\u2019 recent struggles.<\/p>\n The Greek fell out of the top 10 after failing to defend his Monte Carlo Masters title back in April and has now suffered his earliest French Open exit since a round-two exit to Dominic Thiem in 2018.<\/p>\n Tsitsipas had reached at least the fourth round of the tournament every year since then, including runs to the semi-final in 2020 and the final in 2021.<\/p>\n Former world No 3 Tsitsipas was defending 400 quarter-final points at Roland Garros following a run to the last eight back in 2024.<\/p>\n However, with only 50 ranking points offered to those who lose in the second round, the Greek will drop from 2,270 to 1,920 points when the rankings update post-tournament.<\/p>\n Currently ranked 20th in the world, Tsitsipas will drop at least five places to world No 25 on Monday, June 9th.<\/p>\n He will be knocked down to world No 26 in the ATP Live Rankings should current world No 26 Flavio Cobolli defeat Matteo Arnaldi in their second-round clash on Thursday.<\/p>\n Tsitsipas has not been ranked outside the top 20 since August 2018, when he leapt from world No 27 to No 15 after a run to his first Masters 1000 final at the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n A two-time Grand Slam finalist at the peak of his powers, he faces an uphill task to rescue his ranking over the coming months.<\/p>\n Wimbledon and the US Open have traditionally been his weakest Slams, never making it past round four at SW19 or round three at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>:\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz trails only Rafael Nadal & Bjorn Borg in incredible clay stat after French Open win<\/a><\/p>\n The post Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 shock slump confirmed after stunning French Open loss to world No 167<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stefanos Tsitsipas will drop to his lowest ATP Ranking in almost seven years after a stunning French Open exit to world No 167 Matteo Gigante. Greek star Tsitsipas, the 20th seed at Roland Garros, was beaten 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 by Gigante out on Court Simonne-Mathieu, the Italian saving multiple break points as he closed […]<\/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-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open News<\/h2>\n