In a latest interview with Tennis Journal, Alexander Zverev confessed to having had issues with Juan Carlos Ferrero and Ivan Lendl. Specifically with the 8-time Grand Slam champion, with whom there have been a number of disagreements. In 2019, actually, their working relationship ended abruptly.
“He can become strong, but his problems off the court do not allow him to work according to my philosophy,” defined the previous tennis participant.
Zverev defined new behind-the-scenes particulars about their working relationship, which by no means blossomed, analyzing: “He had gotten a new dog and showed him how to go to the bathroom: this was his main interest. And golf.”
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The phrases addressed to Boris Becker had been decidedly completely different. The 2024 French Open finalist didn’t rule out a potential collaboration with the winner of 6 Grand Slam tournaments for the long run.
“I love Boris Becker and I also think he has an incredible knowledge of tennis. But I don’t know how he travels. That’s the only thing that raises a question mark for me about him. Once he has resolved and clarified the issue, we can talk about it. We are in contact with him and we speak often. For now for Australia everything will remain as it is and then we’ll see,” Zverev defined.
The German was the one one this season to intrude within the duopoly of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. Though the German didn’t carry dwelling the much-desired first Slam of his profession, he managed to oust the Spaniard from the second place within the ATP world rating. And like I mentioned above, the Hamburg-born tennis participant has not all the time had idyllic relations together with his coaches.
Zverev might be one of the crucial anticipated gamers for the upcoming tennis season, which is able to begin in a number of days, on the finish of December: the spotlight of the primary half will clearly be the Australian Open, the place there would be the long-awaited comeback of Novak Djokovic together with his new coach (buddy and former rival) Andy Murray.
