I see maybe still difference in, you know, how we act on court, how we behave on court, compared to the older guys. Well, because for me, the difference now this year than the last few years was I was the only young guy kind of up there. Do you feel kind of a responsibility in that to keep that going? You spoke a little of that in the US Open, too.ĪLEXANDER ZVEREV: Yeah, a little bit. I have noticed this maybe in the last few weeks, but there seems to be a maturity in you, like in your postmatch today, where your generation has come after a really great lot of athletes as Roger, Rafa, and Novak. As I said on court, he's probably the best player in the world right now. Sometimes that's maybe why it looks maybe on TV or from the outside that players are not playing as aggressive against him as against others, but I feel like he doesn't let you.īut, I mean, he's playing well. He plays with shots that you can't really do anything with the ball, I feel like, and that is difficult to play against him in an aggressive way. There are no players that play the same way. We play against different players every single day of our lives. So how much more difficult is that?ĪLEXANDER ZVEREV: Yeah, I mean, but we have to adjust to it. You don't come up against a player like that every day. Can you elaborate a little on that? Obviously that's not a common style on the tour. Yeah, maybe he doesn't do huge winners or jumping forehands or anything like that, but he plays a style that we have never seen before. Daniil is somebody that plays a way that we have never seen before. So whatever they have, they can leave it for themselves. I have a very good relationship with Daniil since we're kids, and I'm having a good relationship with Stefanos now since the Laver Cup. But Stefanos and Daniil have a weird relationship a little bit. Do you find anything like that in the match?ĪLEXANDER ZVEREV: That he bored me? No. There have been other players that that's been said about, like Brad Gilbert and stuff. Stefanos said yesterday he thinks one of the reasons that Daniil, at least for him, is such a tough person to play is because he bores him playing against him. I will take that into the indoors now where I had good success last year, and hopefully I will have even better success this year. Making it into the finals of a Masters 1000 is always very difficult and you have to be playing very good tennis to do that. Beaten Roger, beaten other great players. I think we're past that a little bit (smiling).īut, yeah, I mean, as I said before, it was a very positive week. Can you expand a bit on the positives that you have taken away from the past week? What's your biggest lesson learned?ĪLEXANDER ZVEREV: Look, I think we're through the stage where we learn lessons in my career. But obviously I have to be on this path for a longer period of time, I think.īut making finals of a Masters is huge for me right now, and I'm very happy about that. I feel like I'm on a very good path again. You know, to beat someone like him or to beat someone like Novak, you have to be playing good for a longer period of time and not just for one week, because a big difference was at 4-All when it gets tight, he does a few first serves and he's through the game. But I talked to my dad about it and obviously my coaching staff and everybody, and to beat these kind of players, you have to have a lot of confidence. What was so tough about playing him today as compared to the previous four times?ĪLEXANDER ZVEREV: Look, he's a different player now. Octo| by FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports
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