Alexander Zverev looked to the positives in spite of sustaining an injury during his first Grand Slam championship appearance at Roland Garros, which ended with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 loss to Dominic Thiem on Tuesday. “I won three five-set matches in a row [and] got to my first [major championship] quarter-final,” said Zverev. [It’s] all positive. [The] clay court season in general has been very positive. I lost three matches on the clay, all to great players. And I won two tournaments, made two [ATP World Tour] Masters 1000 finals. So it's all very positive. “I think if I get healthy again, I'll be ready to play good in the grass court season, as well... Grass is a surface that...
Alexander Zverev will go for personal – and possibly Grand Slam – history when he meets Dominic Thiem in the Roland Garros quarter-finals on Tuesday. Novak Djokovic, meanwhile, a man very familiar with this stage in Paris, will try to stop first-time Grand Slam quarter-finalist Marco Cecchinato of Italy. ATPWorldTour.com previews Tuesday's Roland Garros quarter-finals. [2] Alexander Zverev (GER) vs. [7] Dominic Thiem (AUT) Thiem leads FedEx ATP Head2Head series 4-2 The last time they met, a maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title was on the line for Dominic Thiem. But it was Alexander Zverev, loser of all three of their prior clay-court matches, who came through to win his third Masters 1000 title, and second on clay, at...
Watch highlights as Alexander Zverev wins his third consecutive five-set match at Roland Garros to reach his maiden Grand Slam quarter-final. Video courtesy of Roland Garros. Photo credit: Peter Staples/ATP World Tour
If you’re going to break through to your first Grand Slam quarter-final, you might as well do it in style, right? No. 2 seed Alexander Zverev came back from two sets to one down for the third consecutive match on Sunday, defeating Karen Khachanov to set a blockbuster quarter-final against two-time Roland Garros semi-finalist Dominic Thiem. And in doing so, Zverev joined an elite group. The German 21-year-old is the eighth player in the Open Era to survive three consecutive five-setters in Paris, and the first since Tommy Robredo in 2013. He is also the first to win three five-setters in a row at a major since Sam Querrey at Wimbledon last year. [ALSO LIKE] It was a long time...
Alexander Zverev reached his maiden Grand Slam quarter-final on Saturday, defeating Russia's Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 at Roland Garros. The 21-year-old won his third consecutive five-set match to defeat the World No. 38 and become the youngest Roland Garros quarter-finalist since Juan Martin del Potro (20) in 2009. Zverev also came from two sets to one down to beat Dusan Lajovic in the second round and recovered from a two-set deficit, saving match point, to beat Damir Dzumhur in the third round. "I'm very happy about being in the quarter-finals here, going the hard way, going long distance every single time and showing myself, showing everybody, that I can play for as long as I need to,"...
