The German is competing in his first tournament since his short-lived Wimbledon<\/a> run, where he crashed out in the first round to Arthur Rinderknech. <\/p>\n In his next match at the event, Zverev<\/a> will come up against an ATP<\/a> star he has never managed to beat. <\/p>\n Set to play him in the next round at the Canadian Open is Francisco Cerundolo, who is 3-0 against the world number three. <\/p>\n Speaking with Tennis Channel ahead of the clash, Cerundolo said: \u201cI mean, every time he sees me, he tells me \u2018I don\u2019t want to see you anymore\u2019 (laughs), but I mean, it\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a positive record against him, but I have terrible records against others. I lost seven times to Khachanov, and he always plays Khachanov and beats him, and I\u2019m telling him how do you do?<\/p>\n \u201cHe says to me \u2018I can\u2019t beat you\u2019, but I mean it\u2019s what it is, there may be some types of games that suit you better than others.<\/p>\n \u201cBut every time I play him, they are super close matches, he\u2019s a top guy, top three in the world, he was two. He has a match to play against Arnaldi today, that he\u2019s a great player also.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to relax tonight, watch the match, see who wins, how they play and then prepare for the match against who wins. Either Sascha or Matteo, it\u2019s going to be a tough match for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Francisco Cerundolo\u2019s three victories over Alexander Zverev<\/p>\n Cerundolo\u2019s first bout with Zverev came in the fourth round of the Madrid Open in 2024, when he won in straight sets. <\/p>\n They then met the following season in Buenos Aires, where the 28-year-old managed to take a set off his opponent, but ultimately couldn\u2019t get over the line. <\/p>\n MatchScore2025 Madrid Open Fourth Round7-5, 6-32025 Argentina Open Quarterfinal3-6, 6-3, 6-22025 Madrid Open Fourth Round6-3, 6-4Francisco Cerundolo\u2019s three wins over Alexander Zverev<\/p>\n Meeting once again at the Madrid Open in 2025, the Argentine defeated Zverev to advance to the quarterfinals in the Spanish capital. <\/p>\n Having played each other only on clay in their careers, the two will face off on hard-court for the very first time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev is off to a strong start in his campaign at the Canadian Open, with two wins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6774,6733,49,48,2583,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-40702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander-zverev","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-francisco-cerundolo","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40702","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=40702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alexander](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2226993631-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Mathew Tsang\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThe ATP star that is undefeated against Alexander Zverev on tour<\/p>\n