In Melbourne, some people are surprised at how calm Zverev remains in his matches. Image: EPA
Tennis star Alexander Zverev has become a different player, calmer and more mature. Will that carry him into the final in Melbourne against Daniil Medvedev? Zverev’s arch-rival is a winner.
It was already shortly before three o’clock in Melbourne. After reaching the semifinals at the Australian Open, Alexander Zverev had squeezed the blood out of the blisters on his feet, limped into the press conference room with “huge holes,” as he himself said, and probably just wanted to get to his hotel – get out the shoes, into bed. Nobody would have blamed him if he hadn’t been so talkative in the middle of the night given the circumstances. But the impressive win against Carlos Alcaraz seemed to have had the opposite effect on Zverev when he first sat down.
In any case, the Hamburg resident spoke again about the serious injury he suffered in his ankle at the French Open 2022. He spoke about the anything but easy time last year, when he was “not a contender for a Grand Slam title” because he often lacked self-confidence in important moments.
