Which leads us to Stefanos Tsitsipas. The eternally outspoken fourth seed is something of a renaissance man, hosting a wildly popular YouTube channel, keeping it extremely real on Instagram and, most recently, picking up a photography habit. And while so many parents have learned, in our COVID age, to become educators, so did Tsitsipas. “What I tried to focus on during the epidemic was learning new things every day and focusing on my personal growth,” he says. “I knew I wasn’t going to be able to play for a couple of months, so finding a different way of living daily life was crucially important to me—finding new hobbies and focusing on my closest friends and family—just trying to reflect a bit and become a better version of myself every single day.”
Players to watch in the other brackets include always-a-Grand Slam-bridesmaid Dominic Thiem, seeded second and still looking for his first major—he’ll likely have to face off against Milos Raonic to advance—and third seed Daniil Medvedev, a finalist last year. Medvedev is one of those maddening players equally capable of beating any player in the world on any stage—or tanking in the first round to an unheralded opponent (cf. Nick Kyrgios, who’s skipping the Open—and who excoriated those who aren’t: “Think of the other people for once. This virus… doesn’t care about your world record or how much money you have”).
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