World No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas says he regrets taking sleeping pills after complaining about feeling sluggish in his French Open quarterfinal defeat against Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday
The Greek star was beaten in straight sets – 6-2 6-1 7-6 – by the world No. 1 in a one-sided match on Court Philippe Chatrie. While praising Alcaraz for his “great” performance, Tsitsipas says he was hampered by his own preparation and disrupted sleep cycle. “One thing that I’m going to try to avoid in the future is to have melatonin pills [sleeping pills] and naps before matches because it clearly doesn’t seem to be working,” Tsitsipas told reporters.
” Alcaraz dominated the quarterfinal from the off, breezing through the first two sets with Tsitsipas struggling to have any impact on the game. Tsitsipas made five double faults, compared to the Spaniard’s one, and had 10 more unforced errors than his opponent throughout the match. To his credit, the 24-year-old Tsitsipas rallied in the third set but the damage had already been done. “It wasn’t really that much fun out there in the first two sets.
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