{"id":233845,"date":"2025-10-23T07:26:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233845\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:26:36","slug":"sam-querrey-annoyed-by-what-hes-heard-said-about-stefanos-tsitsipas-and-alexander-zverev-after-the-six-kings-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233845\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Querrey annoyed by what he’s heard said about Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev after the Six Kings Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Six Kings Slam recently took place, with Jannik Sinner winning the latest match in his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz. <\/p>\n

The tournament, which takes place in Saudi Arabia, featured some of the game\u2019s top players, with Novak Djokovic<\/a> and Taylor Fritz<\/a> also present at the competition. <\/p>\n

Alexander Zverev<\/a> got in on the basis that he\u2019s the third-best player in the world, but with Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> making up the six, some criticism has come from fans on social media. <\/p>\n

With both of those players not enjoying great years in 2025, there was some critique over potentially using other players more deserving of the place at the lucrative tournament. <\/p>\n

Sam Querrey and John Isner, however, don\u2019t believe that notion is entirely fair. <\/p>\n

\"AlexanderPhoto by Fred Lee\/Getty ImagesSam Querrey and John Isner defend Zverev and Tsitsipas<\/p>\n

In fairness to the people criticising, it\u2019s not really a surprise given that both players pocketed $1.5 million for playing tennis for less than an hour. <\/p>\n

The duo were thrashed in their respective matches and headed out of Saudi Arabia almost as quickly as they\u2019d arrived. <\/p>\n

Querrey told the Nothing Major podcast, however, that people shouldn\u2019t be so harsh on the two former Grand Slam finalists. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cMy one pet peeve on the internet is that (we see) \u2018Zverev and Tsitsipas got $1.5m and they were there for 56 minutes\u2019 and everyone is annoyed with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are people always annoyed with that, but they are not annoyed with a soccer player or a baseball player or an NFL guy who signs a three-year, $81 million deal and puts up six points and two rebounds a game. They are like good for those guys. Getting paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like no, good for Zverev and Tsitsipas. It\u2019s not like they randomly drew chips out of a hat for the Six Kings Slam. These guys have put together a phenomenal body of work over the course of the last 10 years to deserve that spot to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does not matter that they lost in under an hour. It does not. They are phenomenal players who deserve to be there and deserve that paycheck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isner echoed the thoughts of his compatriot and said: \u201cWhat fans are doing is looking at this event in a vacuum. They were invited because of their body of work, not over the last year or two years. It\u2019s their body of work over their whole careers. So good for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zverev and Tsitsipas deserved place in Six Kings Slam<\/p>\n

Zverev might have had a bad season, but he has reached a Grand Slam final this year and has been a consistent figure in the top three of the world rankings. <\/p>\n

Tsitsipas has also reached two Grand Slam finals in his career and was the world number three back in 2019. <\/p>\n

His participation in the tournament only came when Jack Draper<\/a> chose not to play, and given that lots of players have been inconsistent this year, he probably did deserve it. <\/p>\n

It seems as though the same people who have a gripe with the players picked to play in the Six Kings Slam are the same ones who don\u2019t really care too much for the tournament anyway. <\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia are making a genuine go of holding sporting events in their country, and having top-class players like the six that played this year, still made it a sound spectacle. <\/p>\n

As Isner and Querrey say, Tsitsipas and Zverev have been largely consistent for 10 years and as a result, it\u2019s a little bit harsh to say they weren\u2019t deserving of their place at the event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover The Six Kings Slam recently took place, with Jannik Sinner winning the latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6774,49,48,80775,82,18693,593],"class_list":["post-233845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-six-kings-slam","tag-sports","tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233845","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=233845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}