{"id":222123,"date":"2025-10-18T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222123\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:44:13","slug":"atp-player-who-drove-alexander-zverev-crazy-and-beat-taylor-fritz-has-now-lost-11-matches-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222123\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP player who drove Alexander Zverev crazy and beat Taylor Fritz has now lost 11 matches in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/ Follow us on Google Discover <\/a> <\/p>\n

Beating Taylor Fritz and earning a seal of approval from Alexander Zverev is no mean feat. <\/p>\n

Only Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> has won more matches on the ATP Tour than Fritz this year, and the United States star is a player firmly on the up. <\/p>\n

These days, Fritz<\/a> often gets to the latter stages of Grand Slams, and if any player comes out on top of him in one of the major events, they\u2019ve clearly played extremely well. <\/p>\n

Fritz was sent packing early at the Shanghai Masters<\/a>, and clearly, there is an element that he perhaps plays too much tennis. <\/p>\n

Back in 2022, things were the same as he tried to enjoy a breakthrough year on the ATP<\/a> Tour, and one man who beat him at the French Open<\/a> is now enduring a rotten time of things. <\/p>\n

\"BernabePhoto by Shi Tang\/Getty ImagesBernabe Zapata Miralles loses 11 matches in succession<\/p>\n

For Zapata Miralles, it\u2019s really been a tricky time of things with his performances since 2022, largely going backwards. <\/p>\n

The Spaniard is trying these days to get points to climb up the rankings through the Challenger Tour, and things aren\u2019t going well for him. <\/p>\n

This week, he was beaten at the latest Challenger event in Greece, and his defeat to Austrian player Dennis Novak in round one now means he\u2019s lost 11 straight matches. <\/p>\n

The 2022 qualified for Indian Wells as recently as this year but was beaten in the first round, also losing in round one of the Australian Open<\/a> after coming through qualifying. <\/p>\n

Otherwise, it\u2019s been a pretty drab year for the player who offered so much promise with a truly remarkable run at the French Open in 2022, now a distant memory. <\/p>\n

What Bernabe Zapata Miralles did at the French Open in 2022<\/p>\n

Zapata Miralles came through qualifying in 2022 to make the main draw at Roland Garros. <\/p>\n

He came through comfortably against American wildcard Michael Mmoh in round one before meeting Fritz in round two. <\/p>\n

The 13th seed at the time was the heavy favourite for the match and after winning the first set, he looked well on course to make round three. <\/p>\n

Zapata Miralles produced some breathtaking tennis, however and managed to stun Fritz in four sets and set up a match with John Isner<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Despite his big-serving capabilities, Isner was sent packing too, losing in five sets, with the qualifier teeing up a crack at Alexander Zverev. <\/p>\n

On this occasion, it wasn\u2019t to be for the Spaniard, but some Zverev comments from afterwards suggested the three-set win for the German was harder than it looked. <\/p>\n

He said in his press conference: \u201cHe was driving me nuts to be honest. I could barely hit a winner against him. He\u2019s playing incredible tennis, so if he continues playing like this, I don\u2019t see why his ranking is not going to go up even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sadly, that wasn\u2019t to be and now Zapata Miralles might have some big decisions to make in the off-season with his ranking practically non-existent and his losing streak showing little sign of ceasing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Beating Taylor Fritz and earning a seal of approval from Alexander Zverev is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-222123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}