Meet Stefanos Tsitsipas’ Girlfriend, Theodora Petalas On Instagram

Greek professional tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas currently holds the world ranking of number 5 in singles tennis.

Tsitsipas has reached a career-high of number 3 in the Association of Tennis Professionals, a feat he achieved on August 9, 2021. This achievement makes him the highest-ranked Greek player in history alongside Maria Sakkari.

Tsitsipas’s accomplishments are formidable for someone his age as he has won nine ATP singles, including two Masters 1000 championships, and has appeared in a major final at the 2021 French open, although he lost to Novak Djokovic. Tsitsipas became the youngest winner in eighteen years of the year-end championships when he won the 2019 ATP Finals.

Tsitsipas is also a three-time semifinalist at the Australian Open. Tsitsipas was number 1 in the world as a junior player and also became the third Greek player but the first Greek male player in the Open Era win a junior Grand Slam title with his victory in the 2016 Wimbledon boys’ double event.

The 23-year-old debuted professionally in 2016 and, within a year, had won his first match on the ATP tour in late 2017 and ascended the ATP rankings frightfully fast the following year, winning his first ever title at the Stockholm Open. Five years in, Tsitsipas is still a player to watch out for.

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Meet Theodora Petalas: Stefanos Tsitsipas’s Girlfriend And Secret Weapon

Stefanos Tsitsipas is dating fellow Greek Theodora Petalas and says his girlfriend’s support is his secret weapon.

Tsitsipas made their relationship public on 2021 and stated that he had been dating Petalas for two years. It is common contention that they met through family friends in New York.

Although Petalas was born in Greece, she now works as a research analyst for In-Trend LTD, a London-based research and product development company. Petalas has only been on the job for a couple of months, starting in February 2022.

Petalas started her career as a Brand Ambassador in Tripr from August 2014 to July 2016, following up with a Global Communications and PR Intern position in Oscar de la Renta for a couple of months, from May 2016 to July 2016. Her next position was as a Marketing and Membership Manager at Habitas, a hospitality management group, from September 2017 to September 2018, which led her to the company she worked for directly before In-Trend LTD, Outfly, a design agency, where she worked as a Junior Strategist.

Petalas has an impeccable education as she did her bachelor’s and master’s from New York University, one of the most esteemed colleges in America and the world. Her bachelor’s was in History, and her master’s was in Project Management and Technology.

However, their long-distance relationship proves difficult sometimes, as the tennis player is more than happy to let the media know, but they make it work, as his Instagram pictures show.

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What Is Stefanos Tsitsipas’s Ethnicity? Take A Look At His Family

Stefanos Tsitsipas is of Greek descent from his father’s side and Russian descent from his mother’s.

His father, Apostolos Tsitsipas, is a trained Tennis coach, and also his coach, and his mother, Julia Apostoli, was once a professional tennis player in the Women’s Tennis Association, with her highest world ranking in singles being number 194 and in doubles being number 130.

Tsitsipas’s parents met at a WTA tournament where Apostoli was competing, and Apostolos was a line judge. The couple has three more children besides Stefanos, called Petros and Pavlos, his younger brother, and Elisavet, his sister, who is also the youngest.

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Apostoli was also a world number 1 junior and represented the Soviet Union in the Federation Cup.  Their aptitude for sports goes further back in his family as his maternal grandfather, Sergei Salnikov, used to be a Soviet footballer who played for the significant te ms of his time like Zenit Leningrad, Spartak Moscow, and Dynamo Moscow.

Tsitsipas’s parents worked as tennis instructors when he was born, which led to him being introduced to tennis at the young age of three and taking lessons at six. As mentioned above, he took to the sport delightfully and accomplished a lot, a trend that has not stopped the older he got.

How Much Is Stefanos Tsitsipas’s Net Worth? How Rich Is The Tennis Player?

Stefanos Tsitsipas is worth $20 million as of 2022 and has earned total prize money of $17,083,055.

Tsitsipas has earned a pretty penny in his half-a-decade-long career, and being ranked in the top five sure has its perks. Take a look at his career earnings to see how Tsitsipas’s  bank account has bolstered as the years have gone by: