‘Best I’ve seen’: Stefanos Tsitsipas celebrates into Netflix cameras after crushing win

Stefanos Tsitsipas has delivered a ruthless statement to the Australian Open and couldn’t help but to immortalise his celebration on film.

The roof being on Rod Laver Arena didn’t end up helping Jannik Sinner as Stefanos Tsitsipas booked his place in the Australian Open semi-finals with a 6-3 6-4 6-2 win over the Italian world No. 10.

Tsitsipas was “in the zone” as he blew away the 11th seeded Sinner in a fraction over two hours.

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From a break in the opening service game, Tsitsipas was on fire and raced through the first set and led with an early break in the second before the match was stopped as rain forced the roof to be closed.

At the time, Aussie tennis legend Todd Woodbridge said it “changes things” and believed it turned the match towards Sinner.

Sam Groth agreed, added: “The way Stefanos was bullying Sinner around the court, that’s going to be way more difficult for Tsitsipas to do. The air is going to cool down, the airconditioning will kick in and the ball won’t fly through the air so much.”

But no one told Tsitsipas as he claimed the second set and a double break in the third to finish off the match in a rush.

And when the Greek superstar went to celebrate, he wanted to make sure the moment was immortalised, as a Twitter user caught him turning to the Netflix cameras before turning to his box.

I will remember this for the documentary 😂 https://t.co/VPjNoa4cMz

— SaÅ¡a Ozmo (@ozmo_sasa) January 26, 2022

According to reports before the Open, semi-finalists Tsitsipas and Matteo Berrettini as well as the likes of Dominic Thiem, Elina Svitolina, Maria Sakkari, Ons Jabeus, Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe, Karen Khachanov, Garbine Muguruza, Cristian Garin, Cameron Norrie, Zizou Bergs, and Alex De Minaur will feature in a Drive to Survive style documentary.

Before the Open, both the WTA and ATP and all four grand slams came to an agreement with Netflix to film the documentary.

Before the Open, Tsitsipas said: “I was the first person to know about that before any of you”.

Tsitsipas was happy with the result and said it was the “most consistent and best match I’ve had on the tournament”.

“I feel like I’m in the zone. I have no plans of getting out of it. It’s part of my game,” he said.

“I was really fired up to bring the best out of my game today, and I tried to get my level as high as possible.”

It was a hell of a performance from Stefanos Tsitsipas. Photo by Aaron FRANCIS / AFP

The fourth seed also opened up on his comeback from an elbow injury as he didn’t think he’d be able to play at the Open.

“I’m pretty sure my doctor is watching right now, he has been sending me texts after every single game, Frank, we both didn’t expect for me to participate at the Australian Open, it was not part of our plan,” he said. “He certainly told me ‘I don’t see you playing in Australia’ but I proved him wrong.”

He said Frank was a big tennis fan and he was glad he found his doctor to help with his elbow injury.

Tsitsipas will play either Daniil Medvedev or Felix Auger-Aliassime in the semi finals.

Todd Woodbridge said he believed that the match may have played Tsitsipas into form.

“Everything was in order,” Woodbridge said on Nine’s coverage.

“Jannik Sinner will look back and say, ‘What could I have done better? Not too much today’. The match was taken out of his hands at the very beginning on his opening service game. Stefanos Tsitsipas never let him play at all.

“That was a real statement to the guys that are left that he has found his form.”

Tsitsipas wanted his moment immortalised. Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images

Sam Groth agreed: “He bullied him around the court in this one, that’s for sure. That’s as good as I’ve seen Tsitsipas in quite a long time. He went to another level tonight.”

Stefanos Tsitsipas plays one of the best matches I've ever seen him play to easily beat Jannik Sinner 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 and reach a 3rd #AusOpen semifinal in four years. Didn't face a break point.

4th career Grand Slam semifinal as well.

Too good.

[getty] pic.twitter.com/XrTSJfH39T

— José Morgado (@josemorgado) January 26, 2022

Sinner, rated one of the hottest young talents on the men’s circuit, did not get a break point in any of Tsitsipas’s 14 service games and was blown away as Tsitsipas broke the Italian four times.

Tsitsipas has reached the semi-finals twice before in Melbourne and became the first Greek player to reach a major final when he lost a two-set lead to Novak Djokovic in last year’s French Open.

“He served better,” Sinner said. “He moved the ball better than me. He was moving better than me.

“It’s tough to play against him when especially he plays like this.”

— with AFP