Which is why Stefanos Tsitsipas comes to a home game against Novak Djokovic – and why he enjoys the exhaustion
In Melbourne, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas shoulders the hopes and longings of hundreds of thousands who were looking for happiness abroad. Also on Sunday in the final of the Australian Open.
Stefanos Tsitsipas dreams of his first Grand Slam title.
“Ubuntu”, writes Stefanos Tsitsipas on the camera lens after his first final at the Australian Open. It is a word of the Zulu, a South African ethnic group, and it describes their philosophy of life. It stands for humanity, charity, community spirit and the experience and awareness that you are part of a larger whole. Roughly translated, the word Ubuntu means “I am because we are”.