Alexander Zverev turned the world quantity 2 due to his win on the Rolex Paris Masters final week. That outcome enabled him to keep away from world no 1 Jannik Sinner within the group stage on the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin, the place the German hopes to repeat the feat he completed in 2021. The participant from Hamburg was not significantly fortunate within the draw, since he occurred in the identical group because the 4 instances Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz, who is ready to attain harmful peaks for any opponent.
Along with Carlitos, the group devoted to John Newcombe may also embrace Casper Ruud and Andrey Rublev. Sascha has the best expertise to make it a minimum of to the semifinals and he arrives at this match with nice confidence, having simply received his seventh Masters 1000 of his profession.
The world quantity 2 – who has practiced with Alcaraz in Turin at present – will make his debut on Monday night time towards Rublev. Zverev is on the lookout for his third title in a very powerful occasion of the ATP calendar, having already lifted the trophy in 2018 in London and in 2021 in Turin.
A doable success on the ATP Finals would make his season much more satisfying, though he has missed the sharp within the Grand Slam tournaments. The German reached the semi-finals on the Australian Open earlier this 12 months and the ultimate on the French Open throughout the spring as his finest outcomes.
Jimmy Arias speaks about Zverev
No matter outcome he’ll obtain on the ATP Finals, 2025 might be a very decisive 12 months for Sascha’s profession. Zverev should intention for a significant title subsequent 12 months, a aim that will additionally permit him to strategy the primary place within the ATP rating. At 27 years previous, Alexander known as to make an extra technical and psychological enchancment to lastly enter the historical past of this sport.
In a latest interview, former Prime 10 Jimmy Arias mirrored on Zverev’s probabilities of successful a Grand Slam title within the close to future: “Possibly he simply must do it as soon as, after which he’ll win 4 or 5 Grand Slams. However issues are going to get more durable as a result of I feel Jannik Sinner is on one other stage. Carlos Alcaraz can nonetheless lose towards opponents if he’s not at his finest stage and we’ve seen just lately, so it could be useful.”
Sascha’s aim in Turin might be to win his group, in order to keep away from going through Sinner already within the semifinals. The Italian ace should not have any issues in his group, the place there are Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur. The German champion has labored very exhausting in latest weeks to enhance his recreation, already pondering of 2025. Alexander has practiced after virtually each match in Paris-Bercy and his stage was very excessive in every match.
Sascha needs to enhance
Regardless of reaching the second place within the ATP rating, Zverev is satisfied that he’s not but on the identical stage as Sinner and Alcaraz. “For me, it’s about enhancing just a few issues,” stated the German throughout the press convention. “I really feel like, , Jannik and Carlos, , they’re doing just a few issues higher than me for the time being. I wish to enhance.
I wish to enhance not for tomorrow, not for at present or, , due to the matches I performed right here. I wish to usually enhance for subsequent 12 months as effectively. That’s the explanation I do take this as numerous follow right here on this week, and I wish to enhance my recreation for subsequent 12 months, as effectively.
I feel in tennis you all the time have to enhance. Should you’re standing nonetheless, you’re going to go backwards as a result of the opposite gamers are additionally enhancing. I really feel like they’re so aggressive. I feel tennis goes in the direction of that path. I feel after they get a straightforward ball, after they’re in an attacking place, 90% of the time the purpose is over, whether or not it’s a winner or an unforced error. That’s how exhausting they hit the ball, that’s how aggressive they’re. I feel in that side I can enhance. That’s what I’m making an attempt to do” – he added.
The extent of German is enough to win a Grand Slam title, particularly at this second. Rafael Nadal is about to retire, whereas Novak Djokovic appears to have began his ‘descent parabola’ at 37. Sascha have to be superb at managing the stress and controlling his nerves, solely then he can lastly break this curse. His aim has reached the highest of his type for the beginning of the 2025 Australian Open, which is why he determined to skip the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga.
