Davis Cup: Alexander Zverev wants to play at home match in Frankfurt

Germany’s best tennis professional Alexander Zverev has announced his participation in the Davis Cup qualifying match on February 1 and 2, 2019 in Frankfurt against Hungary.

“I think I’ll play in February,” said the 21-year-old, who had already categorically excluded participation in the newly created final tournament at the end of November (“The schedule is crazy.”), in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung and Münchner Merkur.

He is “only against the new system with the final round, but not against the old one, and in February it will still be the same as always,” Zverev continued. His promise is “not yet 100 percent”, because he has to look “how everything is going at the beginning of the year”.

But “especially in Germany, I want to play in the Davis Cup,” said the fifth-placed player in the world rankings, who will compete in the ATP season finals of the eight best players of the tennis year in London starting Sunday.

As far as his cooperation with his coach Ivan Lendl is concerned, Zverev drew a positive interim conclusion after almost three months. The Hamburg-born tennis icon is particularly enthusiastic about the honest manner of the 58-year-old. “Truths are spoken from day one, and that’s why I like him,” said Zverev. “We think similarly: we both want to win, and everything else doesn’t interest us that much. I think it’s important for a relationship that you know what you want.”