A Grand Slam tennis tournament can go a long way. There is drama, epic, controversy, but there are also moments of humor thrown at the main protagonists, the tennis players.
Especially when it’s dawn and the athlete is in the clouds because he’s coming back to savor a good portion of the victories in a scenario where twelve months ago his career was almost completely abandoned.
The German Alexander Zverev he broke his right ankle in a nasty fall in the semifinals of Roland Garros 2022. He addresses the first name Rafael Nadal to his fortress, but he had to leave Philippe Chatrier on crutches and fearing the worst.
The injury was serious, it was complicated in the fall by trying to come back early, and this year he is progressing slowly. He has a very high level, as a candidate for any title and even for world No. At the age of 26, he sees himself ranked 27th in the world, with the threat in addition to having to defend 720 points in Paris.
Sasha Zverev He takes advantage of a very open section of the box to improve, strengthen his tennis and, above all, his mentality. He is among the eight survivors, in the quarterfinals and has the option of repeating the semifinal because he will have a rookie ahead of him, the Argentine Thomas Etcheverry.
In the context of happiness, after defeating the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov on the night shift, Zverev He was alert to a question from a tennis player, the first of the round, which he did not quite understand.
Question: “Your fans call you lion. Is it because you’re confident or because you’re athletic? Maybe others say you’re handsome. Or because you always sleep?”
Zverev He was even more surprised by her sarcastic response: “If lions sleep 18 hours and sixth graders have 4 hours a day, it’s not bad for me, honestly,” he said with a smile. And he added: “I don’t know how to answer that, to be honest. Maybe it has something to do with the short hair, the screaming. Next question. I don’t know what to say,” he closed the topic.
Source: La Verdad
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