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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nAfter enduring that painful collapse, Zverev nuked Rome\u2019s red clay as \u201cthe worst court I\u2019ve ever played on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about the windy conditions, Zverev took aim at what he suggests are shoddy court conditions creating bad bounces.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was difficult to play. I mean, to be honest, the court, I think this is the worst
court I\u2019ve ever played on,\u201d Zverev said. \u201cJuniors, professional, futures, practice, I never played on a court where the court quality is that bad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have match point and the ball jumps over my head. I have break point, the ball rolls. Like yeah\u2026
Yeah, the wind was tough. Overall, again, I just think I should have won the match in two sets. After that, yeah, he played fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n
To be fair, Zverev\u2019s comments came minutes after losing a match he should have won.<\/p>\n
However, Zverev critics will have a field day given the fact he placed himself at Carlos Alcaraz level following the 58-minute thrashing he suffered to No. 1 Jannik Sinner in the Mutua Madrid Open final this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s a big gap between Sinner and everybody else right now,\u201d Zverev said in Madrid. \u201cIt\u2019s quite
simple. I think there\u2019s a big gap between Sinner and everybody else. And I think there\u2019s a big gap between Alcaraz, myself, maybe Novak, and everybody else.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s two gaps right now. It\u2019s difficult to say that there\u2019s not a gap between Sinner
and everybody else if he hasn\u2019t lost a match in how many Masters events? Since Shanghai. He hasn\u2019t lost a match in almost nine months. I think you have to admit that there\u2019s a gap between him and everybody else, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, Zverev was bageled by No. 20 Darderi, was 3-15 lifetime vs. Top 20 opponents before delivering an outstanding close today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, May 12, 2026Photo credit: BMW Open Facebook Alexander Zverev has faced the best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-664727","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\/664727","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=664727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}