1 week ago There was small to abstracted Zverev and De Jong successful the opening set, with De Jong going toe-to-toe with the heavy-hitting German successful the baseline exchanges portion besides showing attacking intent connected the approach.
He raced into a 3-0 lead, breaking Zverev successful his opening work crippled and giving distant conscionable 2 points connected his ain serve, and aboriginal led 3-0 successful the tie-break earlier Zverev reeled disconnected 7 consecutive points to instrumentality the archetypal set.
Zverev had to beryllium diligent successful the second, waiting until the 10th crippled to person 1 of lone 2 break-point opportunities offered to him, but was acold excessively beardown for his hostile successful a 24-minute 3rd set.
Relentless connected service successful the last 2 sets, helium conceded conscionable six points crossed 9 work games portion besides showing his formidable interaction astatine the net, winning 29 of 38 points.
A erstwhile satellite fig two, Zverev has won 24 ATP titles successful his career, including 7 Masters crowns, is simply a two-time Tour Finals champion and won a golden medal astatine the Tokyo Olympics.
A Grand Slam rubric has truthful acold eluded him but helium has travel agonisingly close, including astatine Roland Garros successful 2024 erstwhile helium led Alcaraz by 2 sets to one, and helium is improbable to get a amended accidental to extremity his hold for a archetypal major.
He is 1 of lone 3 top-10 seeds near successful the draw, 1 of 3 players with acquisition of playing successful a large last and is competing connected a aboveground connected which helium has won 9 of his 24 titles.
Perhaps astir crucially, portion galore of his rivals person battled done aggregate five-set matches, Zverev has won 3 of his 4 matches successful consecutive sets and spent a small implicit 9 hours connected court.
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