{"id":85612,"date":"2025-04-08T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/?p=85612"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:30:07","slug":"zverev-it-has-been-the-worst-period-since-my-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/zverev-it-has-been-the-worst-period-since-my-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev: &#8216;It has been the worst period since my injury&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev did not hold back when reflecting on his recent performances following his latest defeat on Tuesday at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n<p>The German suffered an opening-round exit to Matteo Berrettini and has now failed to advance beyond the quarter-final stage of any of the six events he has played since the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not won many matches. So it&#8217;s been the worst period since my injury the last few months,\u201d Zverev said on his recent form in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev won the opening set against Berrettini but was unable to close out, falling 7-5 in the decider. The top seed was not happy with his level during his seventh Lexus ATP Head2Head clash with Berrettini.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played a great first set, and once I got broken in the second set I played 10 levels down,\u201d Zverev said. &#8220;My ball is much slower. I stop hitting the ball. The same story the last few months. Nothing changes. So it&#8217;s me who lost the match, once again\u2026 I thought my level was terrible, but that&#8217;s just my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After suffering a season-ending ankle injury in 2022, Zverev worked his way back to the top in 2023 and 2024, winning two ATP Masters 1000 titles and climbing to No. 2 in the PIF ATP Rankings. He started this season by advancing to the title match in Melbourne in January but has since notched a 6-5 record. The 27-year-old is frustrated by his recent form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a matter that I&#8217;m losing. It&#8217;s as simple as that,\u201d Zverev said. \u201cYou win one or two matches like this, there is no more questions, for me in my mind. But I lost three sets in Buenos Aires, I lost three sets in Rio, I lost three sets in Indian Wells, I lost three sets in Miami, I lost three sets here, and I didn&#8217;t win a single one. So that&#8217;s the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zverev is scheduled to play at the ATP 500 event on home soil in Munich next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German reflects on latest defeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zverev: &#039;It has been the worst period since my injury&#039; - Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/zverev-it-has-been-the-worst-period-since-my-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zverev: &#039;It has been the worst period since my injury&#039; - 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