Zverev: "Physically, it is being a terrible season"

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The season started well for Alexander Zverev, but that was just a mirage. Ten months later, the German is lost on the circuit, troubled by his back and unable to find the desired rhythm. An anguish that has been piling up and he hopes to resolve it as soon as possible.

Alexander Zverev does not lose faith, which is normal at 28 years old with many challenges ahead. The 2025 season hasn't been easy for him, nor his back, nor Sinner and Alcaraz, who have taken over. Before making his debut at the ATP 500 in Vienna tomorrow, the German gave an interview with Bild to update us on his situation, both in sports and personally. Honest assessments from the current world No. 3 at a time when others might choose to hide and not give clues about their daily life.

"This year has been tough. I started well, but then had problems with my elbow, so I couldn't practice my serve properly," confesses the Hamburg native about his struggles. "Since then, it's been challenging for me to serve, and my serving statistics plummeted. Then my back pain started, which I've had for several months, making it very difficult to find my rhythm. Just when I felt I was playing good tennis, like in Toronto and Cincinnati, the next setback came in New York with back issues. That sums up my year, a physically terrible season," shares a man burdened in recent months.

To make matters worse, both Sinner and Alcaraz have closed the door on him and the rest of the locker room. "Both are very dominant. While I was No. 2 in the world at the beginning of the year, like at the end of 2024, I felt at home," Alexander recalls happier times. "I won tournaments and played finals, things started going downhill after the Australian Open final, in that loss to Sinner. At that moment, I still saw that if I played my best tennis, I could still be up there. Now, if I want to achieve that, I need to be at 100%, something that unfortunately hasn't happened since Melbourne," adds the German.

For now, he needs to solve his back problems before dreaming big. "The injections are working; I've already had the second one," he reveals candidly. "I had many issues. After the Shanghai Masters, I flew to Hamburg for just a day to have the second injection. However, when things improve in one area, suddenly they worsen in another. I trust that everything will turn out well, that I will be fit again and play good tennis. I trained well in Saudi Arabia this week; now I have some tournaments I like coming up, indoors, like Vienna and Paris, where I won last year. I think I can play good tennis there again," Sascha confides.

Zverev trusts in surpassing Sinner and Alcaraz

Going deeper into the subject of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, a topic he's tired of addressing every time he faces a microphone, Zverev once again showed blind confidence in returning to an optimal level that would allow him to match them. He knows he first needs to recover physically, but also that the tennis level is there, although the final leap of confidence will need to be unblocked sooner rather than later.

"I know I can beat Carlos and Jannik; I am convinced, but first I need to regain confidence and believe that I can reach that level again," affirmed the world No. 3, who will mathematically qualify for new ATP Finals in the next few days. "Unfortunately, there's no magic formula to be at a hundred percent... Or if there is, it's illegal," the German jokingly commented.

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