Beating Carlos Alcaraz when you're fully awake is hard enough, but a mistake by Stefanos Tsitsipas apparently had the Greek sleepwalking in a French Open quarterfinal on Tuesday.
, and the match was about as lopsided as the score suggests. Alcaraz needed only two hours and 11 minutes to dispatch the No. 5 player in the world, breaking him six times and winning 57 of 86 points in the first two sets.
After the match, which began around 8:30 p.m. local time, Tsitsipas revealed an unusual reason for his slow start. He was sleepy, due to a pre-match nap and the sleep aid melatonin."One thing that I'm going to try to avoid in the future is melatonin pills and naps before matches," Tsitsipas said,"because it clearly doesn't seem to be working."
"Schedule has been a little bit difficult the last few days. I had some late-night sessions. Not super late, but late enough for me to kind of have my sleep schedule ruined, in a way," Tsitsipas said."You know, sleep is a very vital, important thing, and recovery is the most important thing when competing and playing big Slams like this."
This apparently isn't the first time using melatonin has backfired for Tsitsipas, as he reportedly took it before facing Novak Djokovic before a 2019 match at an indoor tournament in Paris. The result was a 6-1, 6-2 loss.Melatonin is a hormone naturally produced in humans that helps regulate their sleep cycle. Supplements containing melatonin
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