Alexander Zverev is the first German single player to qualify for the ATP World Tour finals in London since Rainer Schüttler.
Alexander Zverev has now officially confirmed his participation in the ATP Tour Finals in London.It is a remarkable success for the young hamburger, who achieved this feat at a young age, although he was clearly below his abilities and potential at the Grand Slam tournaments.
Only in Wimbledon did he manage to jump into the second week of the tournament, especially there, in the theatre of dreams, would Zverev have been able to do much more.At that time, Zverev’s sentence remained in his memory that he was tired of learning, since he had to learn from many defeats.
On the other hand, this has already been noted here, a fact that has always characterised Zverev’s tennis year so far: the strength and the willingness to pick up after annoying and bitter setbacks and to make new, then successful attempts at the tournament.Wimbledon and the time after that was another example.
Zverev won his second Masters title of the season in Canada, against none other than Roger Federer.He had secured the number one Masters title in Rome against Novak Djokovic.Great names in both cases, and thus also an increase of the victory value.
Zverev, who was immediately pointed out, is the first German player to qualify for the glittering final event of the season since Rainer Schüttler in 2003.Schüttler played in that year the most constant season, which a German professional ever managed to achieve after Boris Becker and Michael Stich.He was at least in the last sixteen at every Grand Slam tournament in the 2003 season, and right at the start of the season he was even in the final of the Australian Open.
Shaker’s strong year ended, by the way, in the strange tennis realm of the Texas self-made millionaire Jim McIngvale, known as Mattress-Mack.At that time, the furniture store owner had secured the contract for the World Cup for comparatively small amounts of money, but he didn’t stop by his frugality to organise the highest ranking ATP tournament.
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If you see the pictures from London’s 02-Arena today, the high-gloss spectacle in a metropolis of millions, you can hardly believe that the ATP allowed this event to take place once in a dismal local tennis club in Houston, hidden in the middle of a desolate industrial park.Incidentally, the Players Lounge was located in a basketball hall at that time, much to the astonishment and displeasure of a certain Roger Federer.
The young man from Switzerland, aged 22, finally won the World Cup against Andre Agassi.That Agassi had just been able to wrestling in three sets in the semi-finals with a lot of effort and necessity shaker.
Would you have known who else was involved in the Tennis Masters Cup at the West Side Club of Mattress-Mack?Andy Roddick was the number one seedling, followed by a man who joins Zverev – Juan Carlos Ferrero, today’s coach of the German top man.Then as number 3 Federer, number 4 of the Argentine Guillermo Coria, number 5 Agassi, number 6 walker, number 7 Carlos Moya and number 8 David Nalbandian.