Stefanos Tsitsipas: 'Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal helped me to win'
Stefanos Tsitsipas was happy with his straight-set win over Taylor Fritz at the Laver Cup in Geneva on Friday. The Athens native said: "I started very well, returning very well, playing deep. Didn't give him much pace to play with. Serving quite well. Easy holds on my serve. Then, as the match proceeded, I don't know why, but he loosened up. I mean, obviously he was losing. He had nothing to lose. I kind of stopped feeling the same with my serve, I think. My serve was very important at that moment of the match. I could get away with easy points and didn't have to rally much. And once he got me into the rallies, he took charge. He kept pressing me. I don't remember losing a set that easy in a long time, but, yeah, the super-tiebreak went quite well. I fought hard and I tried things, you know, with the advice of Federer and Nadal. They gave me couple of advices that I think helped me get the win. And obviously Thomas, come on."
On what makes the event unique, the 21-year-old added: "The atmosphere is great. I have legends in my team supporting me and giving me all their attention. So it's working well so far. Yeah, it's important to be surrounded by positive people and people that know about tennis. I really like the competition so far. I think I could say it's one of my favorites this year, together with Davis Cup. It's always nice playing team competitions that are -- I mean, tennis is a sport that's individual, and that gives it a little bit of a different perspective. So I like it so far."
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