The German tennis player suffered and needed three sleeves to stand in the quarterfinals. Zverev with the score down was vulnerable, although he was finally able to advance (6-2, 3-6, 6-2) to be already in the last rounds of the Austrian tournament. The next opponent will be the young Canadian Aliassime.
Alexander Zverev faced in his second Vienna match before Alex De Miñaur. The German came from winning on the fast track to Krajinovic, although in the second sleeve he had had to suffer. The Aussie for his part was not having a good year and against Anderson he got a good victory in a tournament in which he could try to end the year with a good result. The face to face favored the German who had taken the victory in four out of five times that they had faced.
`Sascha´ takes the victory
Zverev started with one more march and already in the first game he got a break that he also confirmed with his service to go to 2-0. It was not enough with this and the fact is that the German was very incisive, dominating with his blows against an opponent who looked somewhat nervous. The score was 5-1 and only Hewitt’s pupil could finish up the scoreboard to say goodbye to the first set 6-2.
The aussie was not going to give up. He began to pull out his claw and the public tried to encourage him and they wanted to see more of the game. Alex was able to take the initiative without leaving a break alternative to his rival throughout the second heat. Thus the pressure passed for the German tennis player in the decisive games. `Saschá got nervous and it was in the eighth game that the Australian’s first break came to stay with the option in his service to close the set. De Miñaur did not fail and in this way the winner was going to decide in an interesting third round.
The good news for Zverev is that he started serving. He suffered but took the first game and in the second he found two break balls. He took advantage of it and He put the game on track, leaving until 3-0. De Miñaur kept fighting, but he needed to find alternatives to the rest to think about a possible comeback. With the 5-2 Zverev had the first option to win the duel, but it was to the rest. The opportunity came and the first time he certified the triumph to be Aliassime’s rival in the quarterfinals of the tournament.
