An extra chapter on Tsitsipas's traffic violation has emerged, stirring controversy over allegedly having his father take the blame.

Greece's leading player Tsitsipas has probably been very distressed recently, with past troubles lingering and fresh concerns surfacing!

After the 2025 season concluded, nobody anticipated Tsitsipas would catch public attention again, this time for setting a poor example.

Apparently, during the break, Tsitsipas was caught speeding by an intelligent surveillance system while driving his own vehicle on a highway in the suburbs of Athens.

According to Greece’s new traffic laws, Tsitsipas was found driving at 210 km/h, violating the speed limit and thus breaking the new regulations. He became one of the first drivers penalized under the country’s electronic monitoring system since the law’s enactment.

As a result, Tsitsipas not only had his driver’s license suspended for one year but was also fined 2,000 euros. The news caused a huge public uproar after being reported by the media.

Those who dislike Tsitsipas believe that after achieving financial freedom through tennis, he seems to be increasingly reckless. They argue that a public figure deliberately breaking the law should face harsher penalties. In other words, suspending his license for a year and fining him 2,000 euros is deemed insufficient to serve as a warning.

This group points out that Tsitsipas’s financial independence mainly comes from his outstanding performance in tennis, having earned over 26 million USD in prize money to date, roughly equivalent to 250 million RMB, making him unquestionably wealthy.

As for claims of his decline, his recent performance on the court has been far below his previous standards. Instead, his love life, breakups, and conflicts with his father have caused widespread gossip, suggesting that Tsitsipas’s original passion for tennis may have faded.

Those sympathetic to Tsitsipas emphasize that he is simply having a streak of bad luck: losing love, hitting a career bottleneck in tennis, and now this widely publicized traffic violation, which has negatively affected his image and reputation to some extent. Their tone conveys strong empathy for the Greek star.

It was initially thought that the punishment for Tsitsipas’s traffic violation was settled and the matter closed. However, the controversy reignited when reports surfaced alleging that Tsitsipas tried to have his father take the blame to avoid responsibility and salvage his reputation.

This incident has caused significant negative reactions both within Greece and online. Many fans and netizens believe that as a public figure, Tsitsipas should serve as a positive role model, not a bad example. Criticism and even curses wishing him never to win a Grand Slam are widespread.

Tsitsipas’s team has tried every possible way to defuse the situation, aiming to clear the Greek star’s name and help him emerge unscathed from this scandal.

“He was not the driver at the time; he was just a passenger,” the team explained. Following this, Tsitsipas’s father immediately came forward publicly, admitting that he was the one driving the car and speeding, and offered to surrender his own driver’s license to clear his son’s name.

The team and Tsitsipas’s father shared the same stance, leading some to believe there might be more to the story behind the violation and speculating whether the authorities punished the wrong person.

Just as the situation seemed to be turning in Tsitsipas’s favor, a statement from his mother suddenly flipped the narrative.

In a TV interview, his mother stressed that Tsitsipas had lent his car to someone else while he was vacationing in Africa and was completely unaware of the traffic violation.

The inconsistent statements from the team, father, and mother sparked suspicions that Tsitsipas might have tried to involve his father in taking the blame for him.

The public outrage stems from the belief that Tsitsipas is unwilling to admit his mistake and instead attempted a poor scheme to let his father shoulder the consequences. Fortunately, his mother’s honest stance broke the coordinated narrative, exposing a clear inconsistency that was caught by the public.

After this extra episode in Tsitsipas’s traffic violation saga came out, some fans and netizens joked that no matter how loyal his team or protective his father is about his image, having a mother who disrupts their story only adds new troubles to his already unresolved problems. Currently, he is at the center of public scrutiny, and his mother has played a key role in that.(Source: Tennis Home, Author: Moon River’s Starry Sky)