Jul 29, 2025, 08:06 PM ET<\/p>\n
TORONTO — Top-seeded Alexander Zverev<\/a> beat Adam Walton<\/a> 7-6 (6), 6-4 at the National Bank Open on Tuesday night in his first match since Wimbledon.<\/p>\n Zverev is trying to get back on track after reaching the Australian Open final in a strong start to the season. He was upset by Arthur Rinderknech<\/a> in the first round at Wimbledon, saying afterward he was struggling mentally.<\/p>\n “I’m trying to find ways to kind of get out of this hole. I keep kind of finding myself back in it in a way,” Zverev said.<\/p>\n The German is ranked third but seeded No. 1 in this tournament that he won in 2017 after the withdrawals of Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>. Zverev won a 52-shot rally in the tiebreaker to earn a set point.<\/p>\n “It was a very important moment and a very important point for me,” Zverev said. “I was lucky to get through in the first set and then finish it off in two.”<\/p>\n Third-seeded Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> beat Australian qualifier James Duckworth<\/a> 7-5, 6-1, while No. 5 Holger Rune<\/a> was a 7-6 (7), 6-3 winner over Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> on a hot, sunny afternoon.<\/p>\n All seeded players had a first-round bye in the Masters 1000 tournament that also saw No. 5-ranked Jack Draper<\/a> and No. 6-ranked Novak Djokovic<\/a> withdraw.<\/p>\n No. 8 seed Casper Ruud<\/a>, No. 10 seed Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, No. 11 seed Karen Khachanov<\/a>, No. 14 seed Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> and No. 18 seed Alexei Popyrin<\/a>, the defending champion, were among the other winners. Reilly Opelka<\/a> upset 16th-seeded Tomas Machac<\/a> in three sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 29, 2025, 08:06 PM ET TORONTO — Top-seeded Alexander Zverev beat Adam Walton 7-6 (6), 6-4 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-46947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}