Backhand woes

Zverev bemoaned the failure of his backhand which he considers to be his signature stroke. “Normally wake me up at 3:00 am and I still would not miss,” said the player who finished his tournament with 78 unforced errors on his backhand, more than any of the quarter-finalists. “At some point I didn’t know what to do anymore. At some point I just had so many questions in my mind,” said Zverev.

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“I had absolutely no idea whether I should go for it, whether I should put the ball on the court. Then I tried to put the ball on the court, it would go bottom of the net.” Zverev is rapidly becoming the nearly man of Grand Slam tennis. He squandered a two-set lead to lose the 2020 US Open final to Dominic Thiem. 

‘Most angry in a long time’

At the French Open in June this year, he led Carlos Alcaraz by two sets to one before losing another five-set final. Asked whether Tuesday’s setback had left him feeling frustrated that an opportunity had been lost in a tournament where both Novak Djokovic and Alcarez exited in the first week, he admitted he was “the most angry in a long time.”

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