Last week, Alexander Zverev had just attended Shanghai Masters, the ATP 1000 tournament held in China. The German player has caused great disappointment when eliminated in the first round. He lost to Roman Safiillin with a score of 3-6, 1-6.
Leaving China, Zverev continued to move to Japan to attend the Japan Open. This is the tournament in the ATP 500 category. Once again, the star born in 1997 lost immediately to the match.
This round, Zverev's opponent is Jordan Thompson (60th in the world). Entering Set 1, Zverev has 3 break Point right in the first game, but cannot take advantage. The German tennis player later paid.
In game 4, Zverev lost the game to serve. In the rest of the set, he could not reclaim the break. Set 1 therefore closed with a 6-3 victory belonging to Thompson.
Sang Set 2, Zverev played efforts when winning the break early in Game 2. However, the star born in 1997 could not keep the advantage. He let Thompson reclaim the break right in Game 3 before losing more game serve in game 9.
In the end, Zverev guarded the racket before Thompson with a score of 3-6, 4-6, thereby being eliminated in the first round of Japan Open. After the match, he could not hide his disappointment:
“Today, I played very badly. Jordan played quite well, with powerful serve. I don't know what to say about this failure.”
