A promise for the future!
Tennis-Superstar Alexander Zverev (26) starts on Wednesday (around 13:00/live on Sky and BR24.de) against Austria’s Jurij Rodionov (24/ATP No. 118). BMW Open.
2021 Olympic champion: “It’s the tenth time I’m playing here in Munich. Since 2014, I’ve never skipped a beat. And I hope never in my career.”
Zverev wants to go to Munich for the ATP tournament forever (from 2025 in the 500 category) come!
He won two of his 21 ATP titles at Aumeister: in 2017 and 2018. After that, it ended twice in the quarter-finals, in 2022 and 2023 even at the beginning of the second round.
Zverev promises: Munich until the end of his career!
Zverev: “The last two years have not been very successful, I want to change that and fight for the title again!”
His fiercest competitor is Holger Rune (20/ATP No. 12). The Dane is the defending champion and also won in 2022.
Zverev looked in good shape and well-rested on Tuesday afternoon – perfect conditions for a championship attack in Munich! He gushed four days before his 27th birthday (Saturday): “I love being a tennis player!”
Despite the difficult conditions (7 degrees Celsius and winds of up to 35 km/h), things went well for him in his underwear during lunchtime training on the exhibition grounds with his Davis Cup teammate Jan-Lennard Struff (33/No . 28).
Struff: “It was not easy, very cold, the wind was very strong. But we still managed a good wind training session.
There were still many spectators on the sand court in front of the MTTC Iphitos clubhouse. “Struffi”: “There were a lot of people there during the training with Sascha, it was great! This shows the passion here – also from many children.”
Even younger fans can look forward to many more years with Zverev after the promise of Munich …
Two more Germans were eliminated in the first round on Tuesday:
► Maximilian Marterer (28/No. 101) was a little disappointed: The man from Nuremberg lost 7:6, 6:7, 6:7 against Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (23/No. 34) in 3.24 hours.
► Dominik Koepfer (29/No. 54) from Furtwangen lost to 2019 winner Cristian Garin (27/No. 106) from Chile 6:7, 3:6.