Winner of Tommy Paul in four sets (7-6, 7-6, 2-6, 6-1), this Tuesday in Melbourne, Alexander Zverev will compete in his third semi-final at the Australian Open, his seventh in Grand Chelem. The German, very solid despite a set of set for the American in the first two rounds, will be opposed to Novak Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz.
Alexander Zverev still at the semi-finals at the Australian Open. For the third time in his life and for the second year in a row, the German invited himself in the last square in Melbourne, this Tuesday after his victory in four sets (7-6, 7-6, 2-6, 6-1) against Tommy Paul. The world’s number 2 had never beaten the American before in two confrontations, and it did not go very far from a third defeat against the current world number 11.
Paul, a tone above Zverev in the first two rounds, as the German after the fact recognized (“it was better than me on the first two sets”), has indeed obtained two opportunities in each handle to materialize its domination without ever achieving it. And unfortunately for the semi-finalist of the Adelaide tournament a few days before the kick-off of this Australian Open, he exploded completely in flight in the decisive game that followed. Zverev, very happy not to be carried out given the physiognomy of the beginning of this quarter-final which had seen Paul serve for the gain of the Channel in the first two sets, had left only one point to his opponent in the first tie-break, he won … 7-0 the second.
Against Djokovic or Alcaraz for a first final in Melbourne?
Despite a scenario that could have easily put him KO, especially since he had taken off in the second set (3-0, 4-1 then 5-2), the world number 11 (his best classification) nevertheless continued to fight. And after having a new Zverev entry breaké, he completely revived this quarter -final while sweeping Zverev in the third round. Unless the dolphin of Jannik Sinner decided to voluntarily let this round spin to save before the following set, he who confessed afterwards that he had tried in vain to be programmed in night session in place of the shock between Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz (“The answer was quick, it was no”).
The executioner of Ugo Humbert in eighths, qualified for his seventh semi-final in Grand Chelem, seemed imperturbable throughout the game, indeed left more beautiful, and left only crumbs to Paul, who at the same time failed against his quest for the second semi-final in Melbourne after that lost in 2023 against the Master of Novak Djokovic but will also have to wait before Taking down his first victory against a top 5. Zverev, who finished the match on an ACE (he served seven in this quarter -final, against nine for Paul), will be opposed for a first final in Melbourne to the winner of the shock between Djokovic and Alcaraz.
