Tennis - US Open 2024 - Alexander Zverev : "I was very close to becoming the number 1 in the world in 2022"
Est-ce enfin son moment en Grand Chelem ? Alexander Zverev n'était pas forcément cité parmi les grands favoris de l'US Open. Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz et Jannik Sinner semblaient avoir une longueur d'avance. Pourtant, le Serbe et l'Espagnol ne sont plus là et Sascha peut donc se mettre à rêver. Finaliste de l'US Open et passé proche du sacre en 2020, et également finaliste de Roland-Garros, Zverev croit en ses chances d'atteindre le but de sa vie. Il a en tout cas fait le boulot dimanche en faisant chuter Brandon Nakashima en huitièmes, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Notons que Sascha a lâché 51 coups gagnants et n'a perdu que 7 points derrière sa première balle. Il retrouvera en quarts Taylor Fritz, qui l'avait battu en cinq sets à Wimbledon...
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00:00Are you pleased with the level of play you've had in the last three sets?
00:30Some people wouldn't be all that great having their father and their brother as a coach.
00:35I would be one of those people.
00:37And I'm sort of curious how it all works with you.
00:40It doesn't. It's horrible.
00:42Is it?
00:43No.
00:44But I mean in terms of, you know...
00:47No, I mean...
00:48Different relationships like during the match, off the court.
00:52How do you switch on and off?
00:54Well, off the court I had to spend zero time with my father.
00:57It's a starting point.
00:58We have enough of each other on the court.
01:01But look, I mean, we're all grown-ups.
01:06We all have a family ourselves.
01:09We all know how it works to have a family.
01:12But it's...
01:15Yeah, I mean, I enjoy it because your family is always close.
01:19You don't get homesick too much maybe.
01:21It depends how your relationship is, I think.
01:26On the court and off the court.
01:28I know that some players, if they have their parents as coaches,
01:32they have quite a toxic relationship.
01:34There's a lot of fighting going on.
01:37There's a lot of arguing.
01:38There's a lot of, you know, just not healthy stuff, I would say.
01:45Where I have to say that that's not the case with us at all.
01:49We understand each other off the court the moment we get off it.
01:53On the court, it's about practice.
01:55It's about improving.
01:57Yeah, but I don't know what else to say, to be honest.
02:01It's working out well.
02:03I mean, I'm number four in the world, so it's okay.
02:06Willie.
02:07Speaking of being number four in the world,
02:09a lot of players would beat themselves up about getting close to things
02:13and not necessarily finishing it off.
02:16How have you done the opposite,
02:18continuing to push toward those goals that have proved elusive so far?
02:24Yeah, as you said, I was very close a few times.
02:28I think, you know, the injury obviously didn't help.
02:33I think I was very close to becoming world number one at that stage,
02:37just mathematically and points-wise.
02:40And then I wasn't able to play for seven months,
02:45so obviously that was a big hit.
02:47Me, I'm still very motivated.
02:49I still want to achieve some of my dreams.
02:51I still want to achieve some of my goals that I have.
02:53And I'm happy with the level of tennis I'm playing.
02:56I'm happy where I am, especially post-injury.
03:00And, yeah, we'll see how this week will go.
03:05You play Taylor next, and he's obviously no stranger to you.
03:10What have been the margins and the keys in the matches you've had so far?
03:15Yeah, I mean, we had some very good matches,
03:19very tough battles as well in the past, at Wimbledon especially.
03:24I feel like it was quite a good match.
03:27Of course, I was not 100% healthy.
03:29I was not able to move the way I wanted to move.
03:34But still, all in all, it was a good match.
03:37And, you know, I'm obviously looking forward to another tough battle,
03:41and we're in a quarterfinal of a Grand Slam stage.
03:43So I think there's no easy matches from now moving forward.