Defending champion Alexander Zverev explains the key to winning his quarter-final match against David Goffin and looks ahead to playing Marin Cilic at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Alexander Zverev made his breakthrough last year at the Foro Italico, winning his maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event as the No. 17 player in the ATP Rankings. Now World No. 3, Zverev is proving he has a realistic shot at retaining his trophy. Zverev defeated 2017 Nitto ATP Finals runner-up David Goffin 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in one hour, 47 minutes, advancing to the semi-finals at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. The German has now won 12 consecutive matches after triumphing in Munich and earning his third Masters 1000 title in Madrid last week. He had won 23 consecutive sets before dropping the second set against Goffin in the late hours of Friday evening. "Just happy to be in another...
His service-holds streak was snapped but Alexander Zverev stretched his most important markers on Thursday at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. The second seed and defending champion advanced to his fourth ATP World Tour Masters 1000 quarter-final of the season, beating top Brit Kyle Edmund 7-5, 7-6(11) in front of a capacity crowd on Court Pietrangeli. Zverev, who has now won 22 consecutive sets and 11 straight matches, improved to 3-0 in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series with Edmund, who had reached his maiden Masters 1000 quarter-final last week at the Mutua Madrid Open on clay and celebrated his debut inside the Top 20 of the ATP Rankings (No. 19). But the German did just enough to return to the...
Defending champion Alexander Zverev stayed focused and avoided a potentially dangerous matchup during his Rome opener on Wednesday night against home favourite Matteo Berrettini. [ALSO LIKE] Zverev beat the 21-year-old Italian 7-5, 6-3 on Court Centrale for his 10th consecutive win, a streak that includes back-to-back title runs at the BMW Open by FWU in Munich and the Mutua Madrid Open, Zverev's third ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title (d. Thiem). The 21-year-old German won his 20th consecutive set on clay and improved to 14-2 on the surface this year. “It's not easy to come from Madrid, where there's a lot of altitude, it's very fast, to here. So, I only had basically one day. And for that, I thought...
