Tsitsipas reflects on the separation from his father: "It was difficult to let him go".

In August 2024, Stefanos Tsitsipas had announced the end of his collaboration with his father Apostolos, who had officiated as coach since the start of his career.

This separation was due to a number of disappointing results, but also to the desire of the world's 12th-ranked player to strike out on his own and seek his own path, as he explained in the Tennis Insider Club podcast :

"He's been a very good support for me. He's a very emotional person, and people don't know that it's very moving to have him by your side.

He showed me the way for years, how to go forward and how to try to get there. He wasn't always wrong, but he's a man of honor who recognized his mistakes and accepted them.

I chose to stop working with him because I could see that he was tired of a lot of things. He didn't have the same energy as before.

Maybe he was making more mistakes than usual, but I'd already been thinking for several years that I wanted to go my own way. But it was hard to let him go.

Putting him through that hurt him enormously. It's hard to cut the link with him."