{"id":719041,"date":"2026-06-06T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:17:10","slug":"zverev-stares-down-his-defining-moment-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719041\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev stares down his defining moment &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing in his 41st Grand Slam, and his 11th Roland-Garros, Zverev has banged on the door too many times to count, but playing in eras dominated first by the Big 3, then by Alcaraz and Sinner has been his kryptonite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s never been able to bust the door down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s taken him a long time to get to this point where it\u2019s his Slam to win or lose,\u201d Wozniacki said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a family thing for them. I think for all of them to reach the pinnacle of tennis and win a Grand Slam, I think it would mean everything to them as a family.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far so good for Team Zverev. After today\u2019s 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/47921-j.mensik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jakub Mensik<\/a>, he\u2019s one win from exorcising his demons, and he enters Sunday\u2019s clash with Cobolli in arguably the best form of his life. Zverev has won 18 of his last 20 matches at Roland-Garros. He\u2019s 11-1 in majors this year, his only loss a five-setter to Carlos Alcaraz in the Australian Open semifinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One more win and it will all change for Zverev. So what\u2019s on his mind as the most important moment of his career approaches?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPure emptiness, there\u2019s absolutely nothing in my head\u2026 sometimes it\u2019s easier to be stupid than to think too much,\u201d he said with a smile.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playing in his 41st Grand Slam, and his 11th Roland-Garros, Zverev has banged on the door too many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-719041","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\/719041","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=719041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}