“Can’t you turn it off?”
Zverev wins and is annoyed by the music being too loud
08/16/2023, 8:45 p.m
Loud music only throws Alexander Zverev out of his rhythm for a short time: the German tennis star defeats the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, but complains to the officials several times about disturbing sounds from the boxes in the neighboring court. But then he fights his way through.
Alexander Zverev reached the third round of the tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Olympic champion defeated the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka 7:5 and 6:4. Zverev found it harder than the day before in the opening win against Grigor Dimitrov from Bulgaria and needed almost two hours to win the two sets. In the next round, the 26-year-old will meet Daniil Medvedev, who beat Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti 6-3 and 6-2.
The German top player has already lost three times this year against the Russians. Zverev, tournament winner of 2021 at the Western and Southern Open of Cincinnati, had also fought a verbal duel with Medvedev. After a game in Monte Carlo in April, he called the US Open champion “one of the most unfair players we have in the world.”
Zverev acted unstable overall. Among other things, ten aces faced six double faults on serve. In addition, the Hamburg player was bothered by loud music from outside the field in the first set and kept complaining to the referee about it. “We’re playing in one of the most important tournaments of the year. Why can’t you just turn it off?” Asked the former world number two angrily.