In the first round of the 2025 French Open, former tournament runner-up Tsitsipa was eliminated and his ranking will fall to the top 20 in the world

On the 28th local time, the former tournament runner-up and Greece's 20th seed Tsitsipas lost 4:6, 7:5, 2:6, 4:6 in the second round of the 2025 French Open men's singles to Matteo Gigante, the world ranking 167 who advanced from the qualifying round, and his world ranking also slipped to 25, falling out of the top 20 for the first time since August 2018.

Greece's 20th seed, Tsitsipas

Tsitsipas has reached the quarter-finals of his last two French Opens, but this year's clay season has been sluggish, with Barcelona and Monte Carlo Masters reaching the quarter-finals, Madrid reaching the round of 32 and Roma last week coming back in the third round to move up to 20 in the world rankings.

Tsitsipas and Gigant each scored one in the first two sets that day, but Tsitsipas was broken at the beginning of the match, and was broken again in the fifth game, falling behind 1:4, and finally conceded 2:6, and also lost the initiative in the fourth set, and finally lost 4:6, he only won 2 of the last 4 Grand Slam matches, and swallowed the 8th defeat in the last 11 games against the left-handed racket.

Italy's Gigante

The left-handed 23-year-old Gigante welcomed the biggest win of his career, his first in the world's top 20, and his expression of disbelief after the match, he said: "I'm really excited and hopefully I can play 100 per cent in the next fight. He will next face Ben Shelton, the 13th seed of the United States.