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     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/author\/richie-mills\" class=\"text-sm font-normal !text-author\"><br \/>\n                            Richie Mills                        <\/a><br \/>\n                        <time class=\"ml-3 text-sm font-normal text-info md:ml-4\" datetime=\"21 Jul 2026 8:00 PM\" data-ps-date=\"21 Jul 2026 8:00 PM\" data-ps-datetime=\"1784660415\"><br \/>\n                            21 Jul 2026 8:00 PM                        <\/time>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden justify-end space-x-4 text-xl sm:flex sm:!opacity-100\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto !my-0 hidden dark:block h-6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/content\/themes\/tennis365-sportsui\/img\/png\/preferred_source_badge_dark.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source 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object-center !my-0\" src=\"https:\/\/d2me2qg8dfiw8u.cloudfront.net\/content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3F2KN84-1-1320x742.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured: Stefanos Tsitsipas and his girlfriend Kristen Thoms after his Gstaad title win\">                <\/figure><figcaption class=\"flex items-center space-x-3 border-b border-mobile-caption px-3 lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                 Stefanos Tsitsipas and his girlfriend Kristen Thoms after his Gstaad title win                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 decision to part ways with his coach and father, Apostolos, has been vindicated following his title triumph in Gstaad.<\/p>\n<p>That is according to four-time women\u2019s doubles major winner Rennae Stubbs, who said it was about time the former world No 3 split with his dad after a difficult couple of years on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\">ATP Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas had a brief coaching spell with former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic last year but that ended after just two months, before he went back to his father again.<\/p>\n<p>Just three weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/stefanos-tsitsipas-ends-coaching-partnership-father-reveals-successor\">ending his latest spell with Apostolos<\/a>, the 27-year-old is back in the winners\u2019 enclosure for the first time in 16 months after winning the ATP 250 event on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Following his three-set win over Raphael Collignon, the Greek said, \u201cIt\u2019s a crazy feeling right now. I survived a marathon and it was a long week. I played some crazy matches in the past couple of days. Every single match felt like it was never finished, and somehow I managed to convert every single time and get the victory.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>More ATP Tour News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/dangerous-game-holger-rune-warning-long-awaited-injury-return\">\u2018Dangerous game\u2019 \u2013 Carlos Alcaraz rival sent fresh warning ahead of long-awaited injury return<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/carlos-alcaraz-injury-mark-philippoussis-exclusive-interview\">Carlos Alcaraz \u2018not going to rush\u2019 comeback from \u2018complicated\u2019 injury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I couldn\u2019t be more blessed, couldn\u2019t be more happy. It\u2019s been an incredible effort from my side to go out there and do that over and over again. I\u2019ve dealt with some pain in the past couple of days. So I\u2019ve had to withstand a lot of different things. The result was obviously the best thing I would have imagined at the beginning of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/stefanos-tsitsipas\">Tsitsipas<\/a>, who fell to 87th in the world after Wimbledon, now has Thomas Perrin in his corner, a man who has coached at Patrick <span>Mouratoglou\u2019s academy for many years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After rising back up to 49th in the rankings with his win in Switzerland, Serena Williams\u2019 coach Stubbs says it was the right decision to \u201cfinally flick his dad as his coach\u201d, before providing some apparent insight into what his father was like during matches.<\/p>\n<p>She said on the latest episode of <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/controversies-abound\/id1393881115?i=1000777607932\" target=\"_blank\">The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast<\/a>, \u201cSome would say his dad\u2019s gotten him here and there, and I am like, but the problem is Stef loses his s*** on the court and half the time it\u2019s not even at his tennis, it\u2019s at his dad, and his dad is yelping at him from the sideline\u2026 that is so negative. I know because I was told what he was saying at times by somebody who speaks Greek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo maybe you need someone out there who is making you feel good, and half the time, that\u2019s what coaches do. There are certain things you have to tell your player, whether it be Xs and Os and what we\u2019re going to work on and what we\u2019re gonna get better at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in the end you have to have someone supportive of you, who really believes in you when you get into the trenches and when you get down those five match points in the second round, and you look up, and Sven Groeneveld (Karolina Muchova\u2019s coach) is pounding his chest and saying \u2018Keep fighting\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to look up and see a coach who believes in you, who thinks that you can still win, and not someone who is going to yelp negative s*** at you that makes you feel terrible on the court. Clearly that is finally working for Stef, and it\u2019s nice to see him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas\u2019 last title success came at the Dubai Open in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT ELSE? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/canadian-open-withdrawal-list-8-stars-out-another-grand-slam-finalist-joins-carlos-alcaraz-emma-raducanu\">Canadian Open withdrawal list: List grows to 8 as another Grand Slam finalist joins Carlos Alcaraz, Emma Raducanu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Negative s***\u2019 \u2013 Four-time major winner explains why Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 split with father is paying off Richie Mills 21 Jul 2026 8:00 PM Stefanos Tsitsipas and his girlfriend Kristen Thoms after his Gstaad title win Stefanos Tsitsipas\u2019 decision to part ways with his coach and father, Apostolos, has been vindicated following his title triumph in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2054689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}