Now that his sore back is feeling better (he had treatment for the problem just before he came to Paris), the tall man from Hamburg \u2013 he stands 6ft 6ins or 1.98m \u2013 is easing into his 11th Roland-Garros campaign. His opening match against Benjamin Bonzi was, the No.2 seed thought, as good as it gets.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was a good start,\u201d Zverev said. \u201cIt’s sometimes as simple as that. I won in three sets. It was an opening match against an opponent who can make it difficult against good players. He’s shown that in the past, and I handled it well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then again, he has seen it all before. He has been chasing a first Grand Slam title since 2015 and has stood within touching distance of the trophy in three finals. He knows what it takes to get to the business end of a major championship \u2013 and the first week is all about getting the job done with minimal fuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that his sore back is feeling better (he had treatment for the problem just before he came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-462556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}