Saturday, October 16, 2021
Awarded two match balls
Zverev loses quarter-finals in Indian Wells
Alexander Zverev is considered one of the best tennis players in the world. At the Masters in Indian Wells, the Olympic champion plays against the American Taylor Fritz – and is surprisingly eliminated.
Olympic tennis champion Alexander Zverev was surprisingly eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Masters in Indian Wells against the American Taylor Fritz. The world number four completely lost the thread at the end of the game, missed two match points and lost to the Californian 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 7 (3: 7). Against number 39 in the world rankings, it was only the second defeat for Zverev since Wimbledon was eliminated in early summer. Since then he had only lost to Novak Djokovic at the US Open.
Fritz will now face Nikolos Bassilashvili in the semifinals. The Georgian had unexpectedly won against the world number three, Stefanos Tsitsipas from Greece, 6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 4. In the other semi-final of the hard court tournament in California, endowed with 8.76 million US dollars, the Bulgarians Grigor Dimitrov and Cameron Norrie from Great Britain face each other.