Stefanos Tsitsipas is a Greek professional tennis player.
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He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), making him the highest-ranked Greek player in history.
Tsitsipas was the champion at the 2019 ATP Finals, becoming the youngest winner of the year-end championships in eighteen years.
He has won nine ATP singles titles (including two Masters 1000 championships) and appeared in a major final at the 2021 French Open, which he lost to Novak Djokovic. Tsitsipas is also a three-time semifinalist at the Australian Open.
Born into a tennis family – his mother Julia Apostoli was a professional on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour and his father trained as a tennis coach
Julia Apostoli (Soviet tennis player): Who is Stefanos Tsitsipas’ mother?
Julia Sergeyevna Apostoli is a Soviet former professional tennis player.
Born August 13, 1964, in Moscow, Apostoli is the daughter of Russian football player and manager Sergei Salnikov.
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Her father was a member of the Soviet team which won the gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics and at the club level he both played and managed FC Spartak Moscow.
Julia Apostoli was a world No. 1 junior who had a career-high professional ranking inside the top 200 and represented the Soviet Union in the Federation Cup in 1980.
At the Friendship Games in 1984, Apostoli won a gold medal in women’s doubles, as well as a bronze in the singles.
Apostoli rarely featured in international tennis for the remainder of the 1980s to concentrate on her studies, graduating with a journalism degree from Moscow State University in 1990.
She returned to tennis in 1990 under the flag of Greece and played on the WTA Tour until 1992 when she retired.
Julia Apostoli is married to tennis coach Apostolos Tsitsipas.
She and her husband Tsitsipas had been working as tennis instructors at the Astir Palace resort hotel in Vouliagmeni.
Julia Apostoli and Apostolos Tsitsipas have four children; Stefanos Tsitsipas, Petros Tsitsipas, Elisavet Tsitsipas, and Pavlos Tsitsipas.
Julia Apostoli is officially listed as a coach of her younger son Petros Tsitsipas on his ATP profile.
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