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Tennis Wunderkind Stefanos Tsitsipas’ Twitter Is A Site Of Great Philosophical Horniness

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by Jared Richards  1 February 2019
Greek Tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas uploaded a shirtless selfie to Twitter with a caption where he said he 'liked himself better naked'

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Stefanos Tsitsipas has had a pretty big Australian Open, defeating two-time champion Roger Federer and making it to the semifinals. Those are some big ups for a 20-year-old, though he has been playing professionally since he was 15 — but his Twitter presence has begun to overshadow his achievements on the court.

The Greek tennis player’s been Tweeting Hallmark-style aphorisms for a while now — all pretty innocuous. You know, stuff like “Today, you are the oldest you’ve ever been the youngest you’ll ever be”, or “The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.”

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Perhaps these are all rejected lines from his advertisements with luxury watch Rolex, or maybe these pearls of wisdom have come directly from Tsitsipas’s mind, slowly dissolving in the heat of Margaret Court Arena.

A budding photographer, Tsitsipas sometimes adds pictures into the mix, including self-portraits. The two interests created this beauty yesterday, as Tsitsipas shared a nude selfie from the nipple up, complete with a meditative caption.

“I like me better naked,” he wrote. “I don’t mean that in a vain way… When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don’t have any clothes on, it’s just you, raw, and you can’t hide.”

Which, you know, isn’t not true. It’s all classic French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu, really: looks like Tsitsipas has been spending his time off-court reading Distinction, Bourdieu’s 1979 consideration of how personal taste is a way to distinguish class and cultural stature. Iconic!

Tsitsipas is quite into the photographic implications of clothing. Earlier in January, he mused via self-portrait on how black and white photography dives below clothing and into the character as a person. Love!

“When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes,” wrote Tsitsipas. “When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls.”

We really recommend following Tsitsipas. Sorry coin-toss kid, we have a new Australian Open hero.