The German Alexander Zverev He stopped Carlos Alcaraz’s reaction in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. However, he could not hold on to a two-set lead against the Russian. Daniel Medvedev in the semi-finals.
The Muscovite won 5-7, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) and 6-3 in 4h.18′. For the second time in 58 matches, Zverev lost a 2-0 lead in best-of-five-set matches. The previous occasion was more painful, because he surrendered to the Austrians Dominic Thiem in what remains his only Grand Slam final, at the 2020 US Open.
“One thing has nothing to do with the other. What has been frustrating is not being able to be one hundred percent. I lost the match because of a physical problem, not because of tennis,” explained Sasha Zverev.
The German revealed that “I got a little sick after the match Alcarazwith a slight fever, so that didn’t help recovery or training enough,” he complained.
He emphasized the difficulty of fighting Medvedev without the physique, because “he doesn’t give anything away, he makes you work for every point. I was close in the third and fourth sets, but I’m not the same player in the first two sets. I just held on,” he lamented.
Source: La Verdad
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