Daniil Medvedev turned Medvedev tennis toward Stefanos Tsitsipas after beating Marin Čilić at Wimbledon, saying he would not be surprised if the Greek player wins a Grand Slam one day. The comment came from one of Tsitsipas’s fiercest rivals and landed while Tsitsipas is trying to stabilize his game and coaching setup.
Medvedev and Tsitsipas
Medvedev said Tsitsipas could win a Grand Slam in two weeks, a year, or five years. He also said the Greek could reach the semifinals one day, then backed that view with a simple case: Tsitsipas can play, hit big shots, serve big, drive a big forehand, and finish with a big volley.
He beat Čilić 6-1, 6-2 and 6-4 before making the comment in LONDON. Medvedev and Tsitsipas have met 15 times on tour, and Medvedev leads the head-to-head 10-5, so the praise carried weight coming from a player who has seen those tools up close again and again.
Stefanos Tsitsipas reset
Tsitsipas is world No. 87 at the current edition of Wimbledon and has just changed coaches again. He parted ways with his father as coach for the second time, began working with Thomas Perrin and Patrick Mouratoglou, and had previously worked with Goran Ivanišević.
That reset followed a stretch in which Tsitsipas had returned to working with Apostolos Tsitsipas until halfway through the 2026 season. Tsitsipas said the split with his father is permanent, a firm break for a player who has already gone through multiple coaching changes while trying to find a stable run of results.
Medvedev’s view leaves the same contradiction in place: Tsitsipas is struggling with his tennis, yet his biggest rival still sees Grand Slam-level tools in him. Whether the new coaching setup with Perrin and Mouratoglou turns that into results is the piece that will define the next phase.
