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Zverev Wowed By Djokovic’s Roland Garros Level
2 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Bios
World no. 3 Alexander Zverev was stunned by the red clay mastery Novak Djokovic performed in yesterday’s quarterfinal, a four set classic confrontation win by the Serbia sensation.
Question: Did you expect him to be able to play for 3 hours and 17 minutes the way he did?
Zverev: “What do you want me to say? He’s won 24 of these things. Yes. I expected him to be able to play like this. I have not seen him play like this this year yet. I think it was a very, very high level from him. It was at some point difficult for me. In the first set when the sun wasn’t completely down, there was still some heat on the court. I felt like I could still hit some winners and do some damage with my serve. Then later on when it got really really cold I couldn’t really do much. I at some point felt like I didn’t know how to win a point from the baseline against him. I thought he was having solutions to a lot of things I was doing. Credit to him. He played better than me today.”
Alexander Zverev · Joel Blacn · Joel Blanc · Novak Djokovic · Roland Garros
Steve · June 5, 2025 at 9:15 pm
Djokovic hit 35 drop shots. Zverev seems annoyed by this and also a bit of junk that Musetti had used on him in Rome.
Scoop Malinowski · June 6, 2025 at 9:03 am
Drop shots are intended to annoy, most everyone prefers to hit from baseline and try to dictate. Drop shots break up rhythm and plans. Who remembers the two players who were called “the drop shot dragon”?