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Alexander Zverev began the yr hungry for an elusive main advancing to the Australian Open ultimate.
Within the aftermath of his ATP Finals loss to Felix Auger-Aliassime, Zverev mentioned the 2025 season left a nasty style in his mouth.
Although he’s at the moment world No. 3 within the dwell rankings and received his twenty fourth title earlier than adoring residence followers in Munich, Zverev summed up his season as “extremely unsatisfying.”
For me, an extremely unsatisfying season,” Zverev mentioned. “The tennisseason is lengthy, you have got a variety of up and downs. For me there weren’t many ups. I feel for me the Australian Open ultimate, Munich as you talked about. Every thing else, I’m very unhappy.”
Although the previous Olympic gold-medal champion reached finals in Vienna and Stuttgart, he additionally suffered a Wimbledon opening loss to Arthur Rinderknech, bowed to Novak Djokovic within the Roland Garros quarterfinals and was knocked out of the US Open third spherical by Auger-Aliassime.
Zverev confirmed he’ll signify Germany in subsequent week’s Davis Cup Closing 8 then goals to deal with getting totally match and wholesome forward of the 2026 season.
“I imply, staying match is primary for me precedence as a result of then I can construct. It’s so simple as that,” Zverev mentioned. “I really feel like during the last month I used to be nonetheless increase fairly properly. I really feel like my degree has beenimproving. At present it was nowhere close to what it was the final month.
“However yeah, I imply, look, I’ll play Davis Cup, then I’ll take a while off, then I’ll have a while to consider it. Proper now it’s a disappointment with the loss. It’s not solely a disappointment with the loss, it’s a disappointment with how I carried out with my capabilities.”
