This opponent comes at just the right time, at least in theory!
On Tuesday morning (6 a.m., Eurosport live) Alexander Zverev (26) has to play against Briton Cameron Norrie (28) in the round of 16 of the Australian Open. The Olympic champion’s record against the world number 22 is impressive: four games, four wins, 8-0 sets.
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And this statistic is also impressive: Since the defeat in the Davis Cup in Trier against the Swiss Marc-Andrea Hüsler (27) a good year ago, the Hamburg player has played against left-handers 13 more times. He won all games. And Norrie is left-handed.
Is the quarterfinals, in which you would probably face superstar Carlos Alcaraz (20), just a formality? Zverev doesn’t want to know anything about it. “Top players change and try to improve,” he says.
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Both opponents know each other very well. “Cameron has become a much more aggressive player in preparation. Now he has shown exactly what he has been working on. We spent the preparation together in Monaco, so I saw him every day and know what he did,” said the world number six.
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He is encouraging himself after his first two encounters in Melbourne were rather bumpy, but the last one against the American Alex Michelsen (19) was very good. “Many top players wobbled in the first rounds, whether Djokovic or Medvedev. The first two matches weren’t the best for me either. But the best players in the world play their best tennis in the second week.”
Zverev wants to do that too. “I trained with Cameron a few times in Monaco in December. We also played a few practice sets. We know each other well.” The best conditions for the series to last. After winning all matches against Norrie so far, the psychological plus is probably on Zverev’s side…
2024-01-21 21:07:26
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