Alexander Zverev says gamers being very drained and perhaps dropping motivation a bit late within the season can positively occur however underlines that nobody arrives on the ATP Finals feeling unmotivated.
On Sunday, the German tennis star lifted his first Paris title and seventh Masters essential glory after annihilating French dwelling favourite Ugo Humbert 6-2 6-2. The week earlier than Paris, the brand new world No. 2 performed on the ATP 500 event in Vienna, the place he was a quarterfinalist. In complete, the 27-year-old performed eight matches within the final two weeks and now has a 66-20 report in 2024.
Following an excellent week at Bercy, Zverev is assured to reach on the ATP Finals in good type. However he has competed in practically 90 matches thus far this season and the reporters have been curious to know if he was mentally or bodily drained forward of the season-ending event that’s slated to happen in Turin between November 10-17.
“I feel for Turin, all people turns into motivated. It is such a particular event. It is such a particular environment and feeling once you’re there and solely eight gamers on this planet are there. So you are feeling particular already taking part in there, so I feel all people is motivated. Everyone desires to win this title and play good tennis. So I feel that is not the case,” Zverev stated.
“I feel the later tournaments within the season, that are regular tournaments, there perhaps some gamers are a bit extra drained, perhaps missing motivation a bit, however I feel in Turin, when you made that event, I imply, you are combating all yr to make the lower there, proper? So I feel when you’re there, you are going to give it your finest, and all people else will, as properly. On the finish of the day, you are solely taking part in the most effective eight gamers on this planet. So there isn’t a simple matches, and you need to play your finest tennis from the primary match on.”
To this point, six gamers have secured their spots in Turin – Zverev, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz and Novak Djokovic, whereas Casper Ruud, Alex de Minaur and Grigor Dimitrov and Andrey Rublev are nonetheless battling for the remaining two spots. Right here, it must be famous that Djokovic skipped Paris and that it’s being closely rumored that he additionally will not play on the ATP Finals.
On the subject of the German, he has made six appearances on the season-ending event and has two titles after making all of it the best way on the occasion in 2018 and 2021.
Zverev on if he must make some changes to his schedule
The highest gamers throughout the ATP and WTA Excursions talking out towards the tight schedule has change into a standard incidence. And sometimes, gamers counsel that they merely should make sure changes as a result of taking part in in each event would tarnish their probabilities of doing properly when it issues probably the most – on the Grand Slam stage.
Zverev, who will flip 28 in April, is a two-time Grand Slam finalist and has been ranked as excessive as No. 2 on this planet. However it isn’t a secret that turning into a Slam winner and reaching the highest spot are his two final targets.
Throughout his post-final presser in Paris, the German was requested if he thought that limiting his variety of tournaments may doubtlessly assist him win a Main in 2025. However the world No. 2 was fast to close that down as a result of he feels his schedule will not be an issue.
“Do I? I do not know. I feel each participant is completely different. Each participant has his personal approach. For me, I imply, I performed all of the Masters occasions, which I’ll play subsequent yr, as properly, for certain. I feel they’re the largest tournaments that the ATP has. I’ll hopefully play all of the Grand Slams,” Zverev stated.
“Then, , there may be not that many tournaments that I performed, truly. There’s solely very selective tournaments that I performed. After all with the Olympics this yr, two tournaments got here alongside which have been extra, Hamburg and Olympics. However other than that, I did not play that extraordinarily a lot. After the Australian Open, I took a month off. I solely performed two tournaments in Mexico earlier than the Masters occasions.
“Then on clay, I performed solely Munich outdoors of Masters occasions. It is not like I am taking part in each single week and I am chasing factors. On grass I performed one event earlier than Wimbledon. After the US Open, I performed solely Shanghai, Vienna, and right here. It is not like I am taking part in each single week. I’ve received plenty of matches, which is helpful. Everyone desires to win plenty of matches, however I would not say I performed plenty of tournaments this yr.”
After dropping within the 2020 US Open ultimate to Dominic Thiem, Zverev additionally fell brief to Carlos Alcaraz on this yr’s French Open ultimate.
