Jannik Sinner: Alexander Zverev’s bitter admission about what Azure did to him

Alexander Zverev&#8217s 2025 is turning out to be really complicated: in an interview with the Nothing Major podcast, the German tennis player reviewed the first months of the year, and in particular the confrontation with Jannik Sinner, which shocked him about the level of the Blue’s game.

The defeat in the Australian Open final, which was so clear-cut, affected him greatly: “I went into this match convinced that I was going to win. This is my third final, I will win it, I told myself. I felt so confident before I started the match, and then I was beaten. At that moment he was doing everything better than me”.

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“I was serving better than he was, but except for serving, Sinner literally did everything better than me. I came off the court and thought, wow. I didn’t know what the hell to do, I had a really hard time mentally after that match”.

The German then admitted a handling error: “Instead of going home and resting, trying to process what had happened, I spent just three days resting and went straight to Argentina. I played terribly and the motivation was not the same. I had a kind of nervous breakdown”. Zverev disappointed at Wimbledon, but now he feels mentally fresher: “At the Us Open I will be a contender again”.