Zverev's New Complaint: "I don't want to seem like the one who always complains, but.."

Jose Morón | 30 Oct 2025 | 12.12

Zverev's New Complaint: "I don't want to seem like the one who always complains, but...". Photo: Getty

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There is no tournament or week where Alexander Zverev doesn't complain about something. Paris was no exception. The German tennis player wanted to address the conditions of La Defense Arena court. After a 2024 where the tournament received many criticisms for the extreme speed of the courts, they are now getting more complaints about the slowness.

This is what Sascha commented for Eurosport after his narrow victory over Camilo Ugo Carabelli in his debut at the Paris Masters. Zverev points out that many top players on the circuit are struggling to adjust to the court conditions in Paris, which is why we have seen some surprising defeats.

Zverev's complaint about the conditions of Paris courts

“I don't want to always be the one complaining every week, but I think the surface here is quite strange. It is very slow, and the ball bounces very little. It's difficult to make good shots. Even when hitting a good shot, it feels like it's not rewarded. If you hit powerfully with spin, the ball stays low. If you hit hard, the ball loses speed,” commented Alexander Zverev.

Perhaps what the German says is related to some of the things happening in the early days of competition, with a Carlos Alcaraz who admitted in a press conference that he had absolutely no feeling with the ball and did not feel comfortable at all. “I have the impression that the shots of the best players are not as effective. Perhaps that's the reason,” Sascha affirms. “We'll see how the tournament progresses. Maybe all the seeds start winning from now on, and everything I've said makes no sense,” he concludes.

After a year of strong criticism, the tournament slowed down the court speed to a point perhaps too low and strange for the top players, who have also complained that the Paris court almost seems like a clay court. It's curious to see how in a sport like tennis and with such important tournaments like these, there are so many issues with court conditions and so many complaints. It's hard to believe that something uniform can't be done for each year in the respective tournaments and that it doesn't change so that each player knows what to expect when playing in that event.

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