ATP: Alexander Zverev - "Dad is better than Lendl"
In an interview with "tennis MAGAZIN", world number three Alexander Zverev leaves no doubt about who is the best coach for him.
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Dec 15, 2021, 02:16 pm
The vacation with girlfriend Sophia Thomalla is over, now Germany's number one Alexander Zverev has to toil for the coming season. And when preparing for 2022 as well as in the area of marketing and management, the current world number three leaves nothing to chance, as he told the renowned “tennis MAGAZINE”: “I took things into my own hands. It used to be said you would do this interview or you would perform there. Now it's so that I decide for myself. "
After all, he has not yet achieved all of his goals, which is why Zverev is also happy, a perfect team around coach dad Alexander Zverev sen. to have rallied. The short-term experiment with Ivan Lendl as a coach is checked off for the man from Hamburg: “It didn't work well with Lendl. It's not a secret. Personally, we may not have been a good match either. I am someone in my sport too, I am a personality. I'm not someone who says yes and amen to everything. "
Djokovic for Zverev of GOAT
Even after two years, Lendl was in Zverev's supervisory staff from autumn 2018 to summer 2019, a bit of scorched earth can still be perceived: “You can't join my team and turn my life and career upside down just because you have one has a different opinion than me. Papa is better than Lendl. For me that's not a question at all. "
The 24-year-old also has a very clear opinion on the subject of GOAT - Novak Djokovic. “He was number one in the world for most weeks and finished most years as number one. Novak has won most of the Masters titles and a lot more. You can't always go against the numbers and say that Roger or Rafa are better because we've all been fans of them from an early age. Sometimes you have to look at things realistically and Novak's records are simply a fact. "