Sascha's coaches aimed for him to have a riskier, aggressive playing style built around hitting the ball with pace and finishing points quickly. My backhand, in particular, is 100 per cent down to my mum.” While his mother had a more relaxed teaching style, his father "had a very Soviet way of doing physical training sessions" that involved doing timed drills for fixed numbers of repetitions. He has said, "I think I have pretty good technique, which my mum did at a young age, so credit to her for that. When Sascha was young, his mother was his primary coach while his father was focused on coaching his brother. Sascha also played hockey and football as a child but decided to focus only on tennis around the age of 12 after an early-round loss at a high-level international junior tournament in Florida. He would never want to leave the court unless he won the match. His brother Mischa said, "He would not understand or accept that he was losing" when the two would play against each other. Sascha was extremely competitive as a child. I enjoy it still, I enjoyed it back then." When he was five years old, he started to play tennis at least half an hour each day. Since Sascha began playing tennis at a very young age, he has said, "One day, when I was I think one year and five months old, I just picked up a little racket, and I was starting to push the ball all over our apartment, and since then, they took me out on the court. Zverev started playing tennis at the age of 3. After initially declining, they accepted an offer to work at the Uhlenhorster Hockey Club in Hamburg the following year and ended up settling in the country. While in Germany, they were offered jobs as tennis instructors. With the collapse of the Soviet Union imminent, Irina went to Germany to compete at a tournament in 1990, with her husband accompanying as her coach.
The Soviet government often restricted their players from competing outside the country, an impediment that limited how high either of Sascha's parents could rise in the world rankings. They both moved from Sochi to the capital to train at the CSKA Moscow military-run tennis club. 175 in the world, became the top-ranked men's player nationally, while his mother was the fourth-highest ranked women's player in the Soviet Union.
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Both of Sascha's parents were professional tennis players for the Soviet Union. His older brother Mischa, born nearly a decade earlier, is also a professional tennis player. 8.4 Year–end championships performance timelineĪlexander "Sascha" Zverev was born on 20 April 1997 in Hamburg, Germany to Russian parents, Irina Zvereva and Alexander Mikhailovich Zverev.8.1 Grand Slam tournament performance timeline.3.9 2022: First top 10 win in a Grand Slam, ankle injury and surgery, world No.3.8 2021: Six ATP titles including Olympic gold and ATP Finals, return to Top-3.3.7 2020: US Open final & Australian Open semifinals.3.6 2019: Early season struggles, Masters runner-up, ATP Finals semifinal.3.5 2018: Tour Finals champion, first Grand Slam quarterfinal.3.4 2017: Two Masters titles, world No.3.3 2016: First ATP title, Federer upset, top 20.3.1 2011–14: Challenger title and ATP semifinal at 17.At the Laver Cup, Zverev has played an instrumental role in Team Europe's early success in the competition, winning the clinching matches in 20. At 20 years old, he became the youngest player to debut in the top 20 since Novak Djokovic. As a teenager, Zverev won two ATP titles and upset then-world No. He had an early breakthrough on the professional tour as well, becoming one of the youngest Challenger Tour title winners in history at the age of 17. 1, and won a junior major singles title at the 2014 Australian Open. He sustained an ankle injury when he played the semifinal of the French Open 2022 against Rafael Nadal and is currently recovering.
Zverev is the only active player outside of the Big Four with five Masters 1000 titles.
He has won 19 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and reached his first major final at the 2020 US Open, finishing runner-up to Dominic Thiem.
Zverev's career highlights include titles at the 2018 and the 2021 ATP Finals, and a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. 2, and has been a permanent fixture in the top 10 since July 2017. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 339–150 (69.3%) (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)ĥ7–62 (47.9%) (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)Īlexander "Sascha" Alexandrovich Zverev ( German pronunciation: born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player.
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