Zverev resurfaced six months after his injury at Roland Garros

The German Alexander Zverev He returned to the slopes on Thursday, more than half a year later, after a serious ankle injury that occurred on June 3 in the semifinals of Roland Garros and he did it in the exhibition tournament Diriyah Tennis Cupwhich is disputed in Saudi Arabia until Saturday, where he picked up a win and a loss on the first day.

The German tennis player, currently number 12 in the ATP ranking, returned with a victory in the morning session against the Austrian. Dominic Thiem in the round of 16 matches played using special rules, the best of three supertiebreaks were played to 10 points. Zverev won 10-8 and 10-7 in 26 minutes.

After a while he gave up Daniel Medvedev in the quarterfinals -which are already played according to the rules of the ITF except for the third set, which in case it has to be played will be resolved in a tie-break to ten points- in a match where it is from less. in more and where the Russian, seventh racket on the circuit, beat him with solvency in two sets 6-0 and 6-4 after an hour and 28 minutes of match.

This Friday the semifinals will be held, with Saturday’s finalists appearing while the losers of the first day will start their own doubles tournament.

The first semifinal pits Medvedev against the Swiss Stan Wawrinkawhich eliminated the Italian Matteo Berrettini in his debut (5-10, 10-4 and 10-6) and in the quarterfinals he defeated the Russian Andrei Rublev of 6-7 (3), 6-2 and 10-6.

The second semi-finalist will be decided after the clash between Stefanos Tsitsipas-Cameron Norrie and Taylor Fritz-Hubert Hurkacz, which will be played next. In the round of 16, Hurkacz defeated Dominic Stricker (10-7, 10-5) and Norrie defeated Nick Kyrgios by doubles 10-6.