Olympic champion attacks ATP
Zverev angry at Madrid’s ‘shame’
05/09/2022, 08:45 am
Alexander Zverev has no chance against child prodigy Carlos Alcaraz in the Madrid final. The Spaniard, says the Olympic champion, is currently the best player in the world. And so the dismantling is not the problem for Zverev, the work of the ATP is. After the defeat, the German rages.
Tennis Olympic champion Alexander Zverev struck the Spanish prodigy Carlos Alcaraz (3: 6, 1: 6) against the ATP after being dismantled in the final of the Masters in Madrid. The work of the player organization in the past week was “an absolute disgrace,” said Zverev, who specifically referred to the late scheduling of his matches in the quarterfinals and semifinals.
“Two days ago I went to bed at four, half past four, the next day at 5.20 a.m.,” complained the Hamburger: “If every normal person goes to bed at four and then at five o’clock, it will be difficult, at all just to wake up properly.” If you’re awake that long, you’re literally “dead the next day”.
Playing a final against 19-year-old Alcaraz with such a mortgage, who “is currently the best player in the world” for Zverev, who is six years his senior, was “difficult”. On the court he had “no coordination” with his own serve and basic shots, and he also missed easy balls.
All of this makes him “angry”, explained Zverev after the match, which only lasted 62 minutes. At the same time, he admitted that he “probably wouldn’t have beaten Alcaraz on Sunday even if he was completely fresh”. After the Madrid triumph, he in turn declared that he would not be participating in the Masters in Rome next week. He wanted to be “at 100 percent” at the French Open in Paris (May 22 to June 5), said Alcaraz.
Alcaraz was the first player ever to throw Rafael Nadal and Djokovic out of a tournament on red ashes in Madrid this week. “He can achieve anything,” said Nadal, and Alcaraz thinks so too: “I don’t see any limits for myself. I already feel for the top players in every tournament, in every match, on every surface.”