Tsitsipas Learned Of Her Grandmother's Death Five Minutes Before Playing The Roland Garros Final

Stefanos Tsitsipas has confessed that he learned of his grandmother's death just minutes before the start of his Roland Garros final , lost in five sets to Novak Djokovic on Sunday. The 22-year-old Greek player dedicated his first Grand Slam final to his paternal grandmother, in a message posted on his Instagram account. "Five minutes before I hit the track, my very dear grandmother lost her fight for life. A wise woman, whose faith in life and her willingness to give and offer cannot be compared to anyone else I have ever met. wrote Stefanos Tsitsipas.

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"It is important that there are more people like her in this world. Because people like her make people live . They make people dream." Tsitsipas is considered to be the heir to the three tennis giants Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal . But after hearing that bad news, he declared that there were more important things in life than winning trophies. " Life is not winning or losing. It is about enjoying every moment of life, alone or with others," he said. "Living a life full of meaning, without misery or abjection. Raising trophies and celebrating victories is fine, but it is not everything," he concluded.

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