“It’s difficult to say that there’s not a gap between Sinner and everybody else if he hasn’t lost a match in Masters events since Shanghai.”<\/p>\n
While Zverev spoke highly of Sinner, he described his own performance as “awful.”<\/p>\n
\u201dHe’s very good, of course. But I think today I would have lost to anybody, to be very fair. I think today I played an awful tennis match,” the German said.<\/p>\n
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Sinner crushes Zverev to claim record fifth straight Masters 1000 title<\/p>\n
Video credit: SNTV<\/p>\n
\u201dI think everybody’s struggling against him. He’s won the last five Masters events, so it’s not like I’m the only one losing to him. I’m just losing to him more because I get to him every single time and I lose to him. <\/p>\n
“So, it’s like that. Today doesn’t make sense to talk much about strategy, it was absolutely a terrible match by me. I don’t think there’s much strategy involved.”<\/p>\n
Sinner is the first player ever to have won five consecutive Masters 1000 titles and if he wins the upcoming Italian Open<\/a>, he will join Novak Djokovic as the only players to have won all nine of the ATP Tour\u2019s main events.<\/p>\n \u201dI think he’s very stable,\u201d Zverev added. \u201dHe doesn’t have dips, he doesn’t have phases where he goes down. I think that’s why he’s world No. 1. To me, that’s more spectacular, I think, keeping the level the whole time.”<\/p>\n World No. 3 Zverev, who is 7155 ranking points behind No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz and 8545 behind Sinner, will hope to go one better in Rome.<\/p>\n Sinner, meanwhile, will be the favourite to win yet another title as he builds towards the French Open<\/a> later this month – live on TNT Sports and HBO Max<\/a> – in ominous form.<\/p>\n \u201dI think you win matches before matches,\u201d he told Sky Sports after the Madrid Open final. \u201dI try to put the right preparations in and I\u2019m very careful about what I put in my body.<\/p>\n \u201dWhen I\u2019m serving well in fast conditions like this, it helps. Starting with a break right away against Sashca is a good start. He didn\u2019t play his best and was a bit tired, but I played well.\u201d<\/p>\n Jannik Sinner is in imperious form.<\/p>\n Image credit: SID<\/p>\n He added: \u201dI\u2019m very happy that I\u2019ve continued to believe in myself. I\u2019m showing up every day, at every practice session, trying to put in the right work with the right discipline. <\/p>\n “To do so, you need to have the right team behind you, which I have. I\u2019m very happy about me, but also the team, and this means a lot to all of us.<\/p>\n \u201dI know we are doing something incredible, so thank you so much. Thanks for standing by my side, I know that maybe a lot Italians are watching so thanks for the support at home, I really feel it.”<\/p>\n Add TNT Sports as a preferred source here<\/a>\u00a0to enjoy more content like this.TNT Sports is the exclusive French Open broadcaster in the UK and Ireland. Coverage of every court will be available to stream live on HBO Max<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Please have a break at French Open’, Zverev jokes with Sinner Video credit: SNTV Sinner won 6-1 6-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[194048,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-madrid-mens-singles-2026","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"picture\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-59390c70-8c3f-403a-99ee-c251affa24e6.jpeg\")
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