“Sascha is not far away,” said his brother Mischa Zverev in advance of the cracker exclusively to “Eurosport.de”: “He can already call up his top level. Now he just has to work on being able to call up this performance permanently.”
What the Eurosport Expert This means became clear in the duel with Ruusuvuori when Zverev dropped significantly in the second set.
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“I didn’t play my best tennis, he did,” Zverev then classified his own performance: “He showed an amazing match and was the better player, even in the third set.”
Mischa Zverev: Sascha still has room for improvement here
He was all the happier about the win: “I tried to win the important points. It worked. I’m through, that’s the main thing.”
Even his brother can no longer make out a “big construction site” in the game of the German number one. It is important that he “constantly improves” after the severe ligament injury that resulted in surgery and cost Zverev the entire second half of 2022.
“He has to feel that he’s making progress, then the work is fruitful,” says Mischa Zverev: “It’s always more fun when you realize things are progressing. Stagnation is exhausting, but far from it.”
Zverev still has room for improvement in the fitness area. “It’s hard to say how much he’s still missing, but I can see that he can get fitter,” his brother assesses the form of number 14 in the world rankings.
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However, strength and endurance should be of particular importance in the round of 16 against Medvedev.
“I’m sure we’ll see a lot of rallies,” said Zverev’s Russian opponent in advance. Only on his serve, Zverev’s greatest weapon, will the German be unable to rely on the comparatively slow hard courts in the California sun.
That’s also why it will be particularly “interesting” against Zverev, according to the Russian, who with a winning streak of 16 games in a row is probably the hottest player on the tour at the moment.
A mammoth task for Zverev, yes, but also predestined to show the tennis world: The old Zverev is finally back.
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