Alexander Zverev

[AnonymousFan]

https://www.tennisfrontier.com/tennisforum/threads/alexander-sascha-zverev-forum-thread.458/

^His forum thread is 2016 old; this is the most recent one I see. Anyways, I voted for Almost Great and (E) Courier, Murray, Ashe, Vilas.

 

[herios]

My take on Sasha, 1-3 slams, so excellent.

 

[El Dude]

I think 3-4 Slams. I voted for D but would re-vote for E.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

I think 3-4 Slams. I voted for D but would re-vote for E.

Why don't you wait until he retires and then vote so that you can get it right.

 

[mrzz]

Right now the question should be "how many major quarter finals he will reach?".

 

[El Dude]

Why don't you wait until he retires and then vote so that you can get it right.

Or maybe I have a reasonably intact self-esteem I don't care about "getting it right" and just like to talk about tennis. Make sense?

 

[nehmeth]

You have to get away from the media hype and actually watch the kid play. Does he have the stones to make it to the finals and win a slam? Will he ever get there? From what I've seen, I'm not sure. If he does, his best will be lesser great. I am hoping he does at least as well as Murray has.

 

[herios]

Right now the question should be "how many major quarter finals he will reach?".

Look, after all he made it to the R4 at the Aussie open, further than before.
So he is progressing in slams too, but in baby steps.
I think he will do better on clay than anywhere else.
RG will say a lot about him. Nobody won master on Clay the last two years aside Sasha and Nadal.
If he makes his first SF at RG this year I would say he is on track. If he fails to make it there, well, that means I will downgrade his potential.

 

[Moxie]

^ One thing I see with Murray and Zverev having in common is desire, but I think Zverev's self-belief is greater than Murray had at that same age. Outside of that I feel they are completely different players.

I *do* get the same vibe with Zverev as I got when I saw a young Safin - namely, that they are going to win big ones... I think it was a Safin/Agassi match at RG where I thought this guy is really something special.

Safin really should have won a lot more - he had more to his game than Zverev - he had decent feel at the net, decent movement back then... but I think Zverev has much more on the intangibles like desire, confidence and attitude... I'm going to guess he goes onto win more than Marat.

I'm going to bump this comment from @britbox. I don't know how to gauge Zverev's future Slam count, but I do think he has a lot of confidence and ambition. The Safin comparison is hard to avoid, with the height and the BH. It's worth remembering that Safin came up when you could actually win a Major at 20. Zverev seems to be making more of net skills, and is going to get stronger. IMO, Zverev is in for the long-game, and that will bode well for his trophy case. Hard not to think that there are more than a few Majors in his future. Just depends on who else is in the hunt when the Big 3 quit winning them, and how many they scarf up.

PS: Did anyone else read that he doesn't like to be called "Sasha?"

 

[isabelle]

he already won Masters so he's already very good, hope Ivan can help him the best

 

[atttomole]

Very difficult to make a judgement now. He can still improve significantly in all facets of his game, and if he does, he will be dominant. There is also a possibility that another youngster (not Tsitsipas) could come from nowhere to dominate his generation.

 

[herios]

Very difficult to make a judgement now. He can still improve significantly in all facets of his game, and if he does, he will be dominant. There is also a possibility that another youngster (not Tsitsipas) could come from nowhere to dominate his generation.

I am having hard time picturing anyone dominating the men's tennis after the big 3 will be gone. At least among those already known.

 

[Ricardo]

I'm going to bump this comment from @britbox. I don't know how to gauge Zverev's future Slam count, but I do think he has a lot of confidence and ambition. The Safin comparison is hard to avoid, with the height and the BH. It's worth remembering that Safin came up when you could actually win a Major at 20. Zverev seems to be making more of net skills, and is going to get stronger. IMO, Zverev is in for the long-game, and that will bode well for his trophy case. Hard not to think that there are more than a few Majors in his future. Just depends on who else is in the hunt when the Big 3 quit winning them, and how many they scarf up.

PS: Did anyone else read that he doesn't like to be called "Sasha?"

Bring Rafa back when he was 20 and he’d still win RG. It’s not the era, it’s just we haven’t got players who can play that kind of peak level yet, though they are already very good.

 

[isabelle]

Sasha pulled out of Rotterdam, is he injured ?

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

Sasha pulled out of Rotterdam, is he injured ?

problem with an ankle. he went over on it before ao.