Zverev, more lungs and best physicist to tutor the strongest

After a good handful of different misdeeds and controversies, the name of Alexander Zverev begins to be increasingly circumscribed to the strict scope of the competition. The 27 -year -old German grows on the slopes and stands as the best alternative to the new dominators of the circuit, while surprising. His temperance and Fridays on Friday, calling for order to the public and asking for “respect” for his colleague Novak Djokovic, piped, they caught the attention because not so much, the Hamburg giganton was characterized by his verbal skids. “I guess I’m getting older,” he says. Zverev grows and he observes how the clock hands progress, trusting that sooner rather than later that first big one that resists him so much can achieve. Maybe this Sunday (9.30, Eurosport and Max) against Jannik Sinner?

It will not be simple, no doubt. The 23 -year -old Italian, defender of the title and imperturbable number one since June, attends the final with the endorsement of having won the first two of a Major which he played (Australia and US Open of 2024) and with all his rhythmic arsenal of blows on the table. “It will be very mental, very hard for both. And very physical, that sure, ”says the ATP leader, who in the round of 16 suffered a bird and now says it is fine. It will need. Zverev comes strong, or that seems and that anticipates the German stem, which last year lost the Roland Garros final for a physical downturn from which he extracted a lesson: to break the roof and finally succeed he needed an extra. Hence the return to the past, the call to Jez Green, his former coach, to recover as much vigor as possible.

“Right now, I am prepared to win a Grand Slam. After the US Open I realized that I needed to improve some aspects if I wanted to fulfill my dream and put a lot of effort to refine my physical condition. That is why I decided to hire Jez again, with whom I already worked for seven years, ”he said these days. “When I was with him, I considered me one of the strongest types at the physical level and in the final against Carlos [Alcaraz] In Roland Garros, what happened was that I sold out physically; In the fourth and fifth set it was tired, and I don’t want that to happen again. I do not want that to happen again again, so I have returned with him ”, expands the number two in the world, which on its layout has only given two sets, the same as Sinner. So far, from equal to the same.

Melbourne did not gather in the resolution of the tournament the two best since 2019, when Djokovic and Rafael Nadal converged. The second is no longer and to the first his body is sending some signs that the impermeability to the injuries of yesteryear has changed. The physical factor is increasingly differential and Zverev is confident in having taken a leap that allows him to refute in conditions such as Carlos Alcaraz or Sinner, significantly younger and with bodies without scratches. In Paris, the German won as Murcia’s legs stressed the level difference and four months later, he had the feeling of having arrived just from forces to the pulse of the quarterfinals against Taylor Fritz in New York, resolved in four sleeves. A new disappointment for him.

The Italian, achaled

Roland Garros’s was the second lost final in a great stage, after in 2020, the Austrian Dominic Thiem snatch the New York title when he had it in his hands. That day, Zverev came to be two sets above and served twice to win, but his reserves sold out and skated after four hours of fray. Now, in the face of the Australian outcome, an episode of maximum physical demand is glimpsed and he hopes to live. Sinner suffered cramps in the semifinals and the stopwatch transmits that it has remained an hour and a half more on the track than its rival on the way to the final pulse (15h 03m compared to 13h 32m). It is an unknown how your chassis will react, but instead, you do not doubt an apex of your emotional stability.

“My goal is to compete with the greats and dispute this type of tournaments and try to win them, but for that, I have to improve. I have to improve on the track and I need to improve physically, ”he says. “Therefore, the final tournaments of last year played them with the idea of ​​trying to become a better tennis player. During the tournaments I trained a lot and did a great physical work. I need it for this type of moments, ”Zverev extends, who is somehow following the line that Sinner and Alcaraz himself traced. The Murcian (21 years) was strengthened significantly and the Italian failed to really exploit a physical plan that supports his high intensity proposal. The last four -month period of 2023 took a turn that was reflected a year ago in Australia.

“Sascha He has played incredible tennis in the direction of the final, ”warns San Cándid The initial acquittal of the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA). “It’s hard to say who is the favorite, anything can happen,” he says. “I don’t feel invincible, I have 23 and I’m not perfect. I must not give things for done and I must prepare well, have and do the right routines to be better every day, ”says Sinner, while Zverev counterattacks:” I think I have the level to overcome anyone. ” In Melbourne, two face to face. And among them, the physicist as a determining factor.