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“As if in slow motion”: Zverev’s moment of shock
Alexander Zverev impresses before the French Open. The Olympic champion is getting better and better.
First the sixth Masters title, then the first Grand Slam victory? A week and a half before the French Open, Alexander Zverev is getting better and better – and can suddenly hope for great triumphs again. “I’m happy that I’m slowly finding my rhythm and form before Paris,” said the Olympic tennis champion on Sky after reaching the semi-finals at the ATP Masters in Rome.
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Zverev defeated the recently strong American Taylor Fritz 6:4, 6:3 in the quarterfinals. The Hamburger goes into the round of the best four as the clear favorite against the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo, also because his forehand is working again after recent disappointing results on the Red Ashes in Rome.
“That’s the shot that wins or loses me matches. It’s been like that my entire career. If I hit it well, I win, if not, I lose,” explained Zverev.
“It was like I fell in slow motion”
The forehand, along with the serve, is the shot I have worked on the most in my career,” said Zverev: “And I am happy with the result so far.”
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Zverev is therefore only two wins away from his first Masters title since 2021. It would be his sixth in a 1000 ATP tournament overall and his second in the Italian capital.
In the quarter-finals against Fritz, Zverev had to survive a moment of shock on Wednesday evening. “It was like I fell in slow motion,” he explained his trip, which left him with a small cut on his left hand: “I had the feeling that I had lost the ground under my feet and then I just fell somewhere five meters away. “
2024-05-16 04:13:03
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