Stefanos Tsitsipas opens up about anxiety and social media struggles

Greek tennis subordinate Stefanos Tsitsipas is going done 1 of the astir hard periods of his career. Once a Roland Garros and Australian Open finalist, and a imperishable subordinate of the apical 10, helium is present struggling to find information for tennis. In caller months, it is wide that societal networks are taking up a batch of his clip and energy. 

"I realized that I was spending hours successful my country connected Instagram watching videos and the much I watched them, the harder it was for maine to get moving and I wanted to spell anywhere, adjacent to train. After the injury, I utilized societal media arsenic an flight from everything and it became my refuge. But I realized that it's not healthy, I person to region myself, it's a substance of my intelligence health," admitted Tsitsipas, who precocious deleted each his followers but for Grigor Dimitrov.

A backmost wounded further complicates matters. 

"During the grooming sessions earlier the US Open, I felt good, but arsenic soon arsenic I stepped connected the court, the problems returned. I couldn't decorativeness the matches without aesculapian help. It destabilizes maine terribly due to the fact that I nary longer person assurance successful my body, and truthful successful tennis. All this is accompanied by tremendous stress, anxiety, hostility and a driblet successful self-confidence," says the 24-year-old Greek.

Breakup

In addition, backstage beingness is besides enactment to the test. The breakup with Paula Badosa Gibert aft a semipermanent narration deed him adjacent harder. 

"I went done a traumatic period, I can't committedness overmuch erstwhile it comes to playing for Greece successful the Davis Cup. I truly person nary thought what benignant of results I tin supply successful the coming period," helium added.

The results talk for themselves – aft the rubric successful Dubai successful February, Tsitsipas was disappointing astatine the biggest tournaments. He finished the Australian Open and Wimbledon successful the archetypal round, and the US Open was stopped by Danijel Altmajer successful the 2nd round. 

“I went onto the tribunal successful New York with a cardinal doubts. I didn’t adjacent cognize if I was going to decorativeness the archetypal match. I was afloat of antagonistic thoughts,” helium admitted.

Social media had go a substitute for training. His tweets and posts often confused fans, abbreviated “wisdom” oregon attempts astatine wit during the tournament. 

“I utilized societal media to flight from my problems. But I realized I couldn’t spell connected similar that. I privation to cleanse myself of Instagram and each that and animate different young radical to effort the same,” Stefanos concluded.