French Open champion Alexander Zverev continued building momentum and kept alive his hopes of winning a second Grand Slam title at the expense of American Marcos Giron.<\/p>\n
The German made reasonably swift work of his third-round tie to win 6-2 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 on Court One.<\/p>\n
Zverev, who lost his first three major finals, is aiming to profit in the absence of two-time champion Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n
He was beaten in the first round last year and has never been beyond the fourth round at SW19 in nine previous attempts.<\/p>\n
“I feel different than last year – I feel I play better tennis in important moments and have more confidence,” Zverev said.<\/p>\n
“I want to keep going, play a lot more great matches, and enjoy my time here on court. <\/p>\n
“Winning in Paris, coming in with a title like that helps everybody. It doesn’t matter how many titles you’ve won. For me it was my first one.”<\/p>\n
Zverev’s hopes of going the distance have been boosted by the fact that he cannot face either defending champion Jannik Sinner or seventh seed Novak Djokovic before the final.<\/p>\n
Next up for the world number three is Czech 13th seed Jiri Lehecka, who came through against Spain’s Jaume Munar in four sets.<\/p>\n
Earlier, fifth seed Alex de Minaur dropped his first set of the tournament but came through against American Zachary Svajda 6-2 5-7 6-2 6-4.<\/p>\n
Australia’s De Minaur will face a fourth-round match against Italy’s Flavio Cobolli, seeded ninth, who earned a dramatic five-set win over Russia’s Karen Khachanov.<\/p>\n
Cobolli, who lost in last month’s French Open final, was bagelled in the opening set but recovered to win 0-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-2 on court two.<\/p>\n
American sixth seed Taylor Fritz, who reached the semi-finals last year, also came from a set down to beat Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-5).<\/p>\n
Kazakhstan’s 10th seed Alexander Bublik is next up for Fritz in round four after he beat American Frances Tiafoe 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (13-11) 4-6 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French Open champion Alexander Zverev continued building momentum and kept alive his hopes of winning a second Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674396","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\/674396","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=674396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}