\u201cLearner from the baseline was playing unbelievable. I don’t think I’ve played anyone who plays that well from the baseline for a very, very long time,\u201d Zverev said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t know what Michael Chang has done with him in the off-season, but the way he’s playing, it’s incredible. Without my 20 aces or something like that, I probably would not have won today. Obviously very happy with my serve, but yeah, just generally happy to be back in the semis.\u201d<\/p>\n
A lesson in consistency and concentration throughout, it was a performance that again cemented Zverev\u2019s name in the fray for title contention.<\/p>\n
He finished with 56 winners, including 24 aces, in a concerted move to press for more as he looked to keep pace with his Grand Slam-winning rivals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the work I’ve done in the off season, to get a little bit more in my game,\u201d Zverev said. \u201cI think what makes the big difference between the best two players with, with Jannik [Sinner] and Carlos [Alcaraz] \u2026 is the first shot after the serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, they’re so aggressive, they don’t let you kind of get into the rally, and, you know, that’s something that I\u2019ve worked on a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLearner from the baseline was playing unbelievable. I don’t think I’ve played anyone who plays that well from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-440717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}