Stefanos Tsitsipas gets ripped by ex-fitness coach after their partnership ends

Fitness coach Christos Fiotakis decided to leave Tsitsipas’ team after the French Open.

Fitness coach Christos Fiotakis has left Stefanos Tsitsipas’ team and now he is calling out Tsitsipas as he claims he left the Greek tennis star over dissatisfaction with his work ethic and after he was left feeling that the 25-year-old’s primary focus wasn’t on tennis but on some other stuff.

After working with Tsitsipas for a couple of years, Fiotakis became a full-time member of the Greek’s team for the 2024 season. But after Tsitsipas’ straight-set defeat to Carlos Alcaraz in the French Open quarterfinal, Fiotakis decided to pack his bags and conclude his collaboration with the current world No. 11.

Reflecting on their partnership, Fiotakis said he was glad that he was able to help Tsitsipas regain his strength and fitness after his back injury sustained in late 2023. But when it comes to Tsitsipas’ results in 2024, Fiotakis made it clear that he was hoping the Greek tennis star would achieve more.

“I am closing this circle, after I said that I will try to bring maximum results until Roland Garros. The results and goals I had set as a coach did not come. However, we got Stefanos back on his feet, back to being a healthy athlete and competing at a high level after his injury. Beyond that there are some things that are out of my control,” Fiotakis told SDNA.

“The team atmosphere doesn’t match my energy and, unfortunately, we have other priorities. I wish him, however, the best, that he may always be healthy. Thank you for this experience I had with the team, I think I gave them a lot, but I also learned a lot through the seven intense months on tour with such a high level athlete. I hope that at some point he will understand that what I am telling him is correct and that he will climb to the first step of the podium.”

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Interestingly, Fiotakis’ decision comes after Tsitsipas’ best part of the season.

Before the clay season, Tsitsipas was very inconsistent and a semifinal showing in Los Cabos was his only notable result. But during the clay season, Tsitsipas’ form improved and he won the Monte Carlo Masters – finished as a runner-up in Barcelona – and he was also a quarterfinalist at the Rome Masters and French Open. But while quarterfinal showings in Rome and Roland Garros were solid, it should be noted that Tsitsipas and his team certainly had higher ambitions after back-to-back finals in Monte Carlo and Barcelona.