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<\/a><\/p>\nOn Thursday in Vienna, thanks to his 64th victory of the season, Zverev locked up the No.1 ranking for the first time. Zverev\u2019s 6-4, 7-5 win over Tallon Griekspoor means that the 29-year-old will officially rise to No.1 when Monday\u2019s ATP rankings are released.<\/p>\n
Zverev will become the second-oldest player to reach No.1 for the first time, and the 30th player in history to hold the ATP\u2019s No.1 ranking.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to wait,\u201d Zverev said. \u201cSometimes you have to wait for the best things in life.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Jannik Sinner out of action for the rest of the year, the German is already assured of becoming the year-end No.1 as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have the feeling to be on the top of the world is amazing,\u201d Zverev said. \u201cIt is different than winning a tournament or a title, but it\u2019s such a special feeling to know that the No. 1 is going to be next to your name when the new rankings come out.\u201d<\/p>\n
During a post-match celebration of his achievement, Zverev addressed the crowd in German and paid tribute to the team that has been by his side throughout most of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have achieved any of this without the people who are sitting in my box right now. Because we are a team. We\u2019ve been on tour together for almost 14 years and we\u2019ve experienced everything together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zverev, who is 64-16 on the season, is the second German to reach No.1 \u2013 the first was Boris Becker.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had more or less the same team since the beginning of my career,\u201d he said in German on court. \u201cI\u2019m not someone who changes a lot of things. And of course, this achievement isn\u2019t just mine. It belongs to the entire team. To my father, my fitness trainer, my physio, and everyone who is always traveling with me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes it even more special to celebrate it here in Vienna, because it\u2019s a German-speaking country, and it\u2019s one of my absolute favorite stadiums, because I always feel that I have 100 percent support here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The top seed will continue his journey against Arthur Fery in the quarterfinals on Friday. The Brit topped Lorenzo Musetti in the biggest upset of the day, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Fuzz The 29-year-old will rise to No.1 on Monday, and become just the second German to ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-951039","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\/951039","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=951039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}