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Do we like Stefanos Tsitsipas?

Our score: 5 out of 10. A decent giver with a clean record on LGBTQ+ issues, held back by sexist-sounding posts he's partly walked back and a short fuse.

Tsitsipas is Greece's biggest tennis name: world No. 3 at his peak in 2021, 2019 ATP Finals champion, and 13 tour titles to his name. For most of his career his dad, Apostolos, was also his coach. In June 2026 Tsitsipas said that arrangement was over for good and he moved his training to the Mouratoglou academy.

This year has been a rollercoaster. His ranking slid to 88th, then he won Gstaad in July and made the round of 16 at the US Open and Shanghai. In Madrid in April he copped a point penalty for coaching violations during a win over Patrick Kypson, and he shouted insults at his own father in Greek during the match, according to Tennis365. He's since said the split from his dad is permanent.

On the harm check, the sore spot is women. In December 2022 he tweeted that modern feminism had “swerved from gender equality into a cult of outrage”, and the tennis world largely condemned it. In June 2024 he shared a video casting women mainly as caregivers and men as providers, which critics called sexist. He told Greek outlet SDNA his intentions were misunderstood, then said “I will say that I was wrong, I shouldn't have shared something like that”, and deleted the post.

Other flare-ups: after his remarks on Kyrgios in Netflix's Break Point, some online accused him of racism. He said they were misinterpreted and that he deeply regretted any offence, and Kyrgios said they were all good. In 2021 he said he would only get the Covid vaccine if it became mandatory, and the Greek government criticised him for it. We found nothing from him on LGBTQ+ people, the climate or party politics, and that's an honest gap rather than a clean bill.

The good stuff is real. In September 2022 he gave $10,000 to Elina Svitolina's foundation, saying he “felt the need to help Ukraine in another way”. In 2023 he donated towards flood relief after Storm Daniel hit his father's village in Greece. Both are quiet acts with no angle in them.

So where does that leave us? Nothing harmful toward LGBTQ+ people turned up, and he's walked back the worst of the women's-roles stuff, though only after copping the backlash. Add the temper and the Madrid blowup and you get a mixed good-person result and a middling score. He's currently fighting for a seed at the 2027 Australian Open, and the Basel withdrawal leaves that in doubt.