Alexander Zverev He has been the best tennis player of the year, according to a couple of prisms. For one thing, Sascha has ended up as the player with most victories on the circuit, with 59, just one more than his rival on Sunday for the ATP Finals title, Daniil Medvedev. On the other, the German has also been the one more tournaments he has won in 2021, with six, including the Olympic gold in Tokyo, the Masters 1,000 in Madrid and Cincinnati, and the aforementioned teacher’s gown. Zverev has therefore concluded as the top scorer by individual triumphs and by titles. Even so, it has not been the best of the season, because the succulent quantity has lacked a quality icing: a Grand Slam. Novak Djokovic, the number one, has conquered Australia, Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Medvedev, number two, prevailed in the US Open. Zverev, the current number three, has beaten both in the last tournament of the course, he seems ready for a sorpasso future, but still lacking the lace in a large. Without a doubt, it will come. In fact, he already caressed it in New York in 2020. Zverev is one of the tennis players who will mark the next era.
Zverev, meanwhile, points to Medvedev as “The leader” of his generation, to which they also belong Stefanos Tsitsipas, Andrei Rublev and Matteo Berrettini, numbers four, five and seven of the ATP. Between them there was a rivalry to know who would be the first of the fifth to conquer a Grand Slam. Medvedev took it. That’s where his generational hierarchy comes from, because the Russian has been the only one who has been able to stop Djokovic in a big one. Waiting for what happens with Rafa NadalBecause of Roger Federer little is expected, only Nole resists the assault of youth. The ATP Finals preview photo defines the situation by heart, with Djokovic surrounded by seven players under the age of 25, who have changed the order of tennis with a new Big Three in 2021: Djokovic, Medvedev and Zverev.
