Italian Open: Jannik Sinner told the \u2018only thing that can stop\u2019 his staggering streak<\/a><\/p>\n In an Instagram post titled \u201cAmerican Numerals Challenge\u201d with the caption \u201cHow many of these would you get right?\u201d, the American streaming service used several ATP players Casper Ruud, Tommy Paul, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Ben Shelton and Learner Tien.<\/p>\n WTA stars Iva Jovic, Victoria Mboko, Mirra Andreeva, Eva Lys and Hailey Baptiste also featured in the video.<\/p>\n Zverev<\/a> did make two appearances in the video as his faced popped up during the intro and then again when players were asked to write the No 10 in Roman numerals, which he got right as the answer was X.<\/p>\n \u201cJust a random question Tennis Channel, why do I do all of these games and all these promotion activities with you guys but then every time I get something right I get cut out of every single one?,\u201d he wrote in their comments section.<\/p>\n \u201cJust asking if you\u2019re just interested in wasting my time or just hope that I can get something wrong so you can then put that in? <\/p>\n \u201cI know you have players that you love to hate on and players you love, so please just stop wasting my time then. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n Alexander Zverev reply to Tennis Channel Instagram post<\/p>\n Zverev has every reason to be in a foul mood, after he was dumped out of the Italian Open<\/a> at the hands of Luciano Darderi<\/a> in the round of 16 stage.<\/p>\n The German took the first set against the Italian, but then lost a tie-break and suffered a bagel as his time in the Masters event came to an end.<\/p>\n Zverev was disappointed with the conditions in Rome<\/a> and publicly slammed the court during his post-match press conference.<\/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. Juniors, professional, futures, practice, I never player on a court where the court quality is that bad,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI have match point and the ball jumps over my head. I have break point, the ball rolls. The win was tough. Overall, again, I just think I should have won the match in two sets.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Zverev will not head to Roland Garros<\/a>, where he will be the second seed at the tournament, as Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> will miss the Grand Slam due to injury.<\/p>\n That means Zverev will be in the opposite side of the draw to Jannik Sinner, giving him a better chance of reaching the final of the Grand Slam.<\/p>\n Zverev has reached the final Roland Garros once before, in 2024, when he was defeated by Alcaraz in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev is never one to mince his words and he often expresses his disappointment if he feels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583797","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=583797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pictured:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alexander-Zverev-reply-on-Instagram.jpg\")
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