Alexander Zverev has confirmed he will not play his home event at the Hamburg Open, which directly proceeds the second Grand Slam of the year at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n
Zverev suffered a shock defeat at the Italian Open, at the hands of Luciano Darderi, after which he publicly slammed the Masters event for the condition of its courts.<\/p>\n
The German was set to head to the Hamburg Open next, a tournament he has played consistently during his time on the ATP Tour, but now that will not be the case.<\/p>\n
In a statement posted to Instagram<\/a>, Zverev wrote:\u00a0\u201cHamburg is my hometown, and it is always something very special for me to play in front of my home crowd. Unfortunately, I have been dealing with back problems throughout the entire clay-court season.<\/p>\n Alexander Zverev branded a \u2018child\u2019 after his behaviour at the Italian Open<\/a><\/p>\n Alexander Zverev takes issue with the way he is treated by the media \u2013 \u2018Stop wasting my time\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMy medical team has therefore strongly advised me to take a break from competition next week and focus on recovery. I always tried everything possible to be able to compete in the tournament and even played through injury at times, but this time I have to listen to my body and follow the advice of my medical team.\u201d<\/p>\n Zverev\u2019s<\/a> latest withdrawal is likely just a precaution to stay fit ahead of Roland Garros<\/a>, but it is still a major worry for the current World No. 3.<\/p>\n He would have been secretly delighted to see Alcaraz<\/a> withdraw from Roland Garros, as it gives him a better chance of claiming the first Grand Slam title of his career.<\/p>\n However, if Zverev is not fit he will have an even smaller chance of toppling Jannik Sinner<\/a>, who is in truly exceptional form on the clay this year.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also worth noting that Zverev has not missed the Hamburg Open since the 2022 season, so this decision would have really hurt the German.<\/p>\n The star won the event in 2023 and reached the final a year later, in a losing effort to Arthur Fils<\/a>. In 2025, Zverev was knocked out in the second round at the hands of Alexandre Muller.<\/p>\n Despite suffering a bump in the road ahead of Roland Garros, Zverev has a reason to be confident ahead of the clay court Grand Slam event.<\/p>\n The German has an excellent record at the Paris event, which has seen his best form over the other three Grand Slams. Zverev holds a 79% win rate at Roland Garros, having won 38 of his 48 matches at the tournament.<\/p>\n That makes it his most successful Grand Slam in terms of win rate and the German will be hopeful he can reach the final for the first time since 2024.<\/p>\n Zverev has reached the quarter-final of later at Roland Garros in his last five appearances at the Paris Grand Slam.<\/p>\n The post Alexander Zverev issues statement after withdrawing ATP event just before Roland Garros<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alexander Zverev has confirmed he will not play his home event at the Hamburg Open, which directly proceeds the second Grand Slam of the year at Roland Garros. Zverev suffered a shock defeat at the Italian Open, at the hands of Luciano Darderi, after which he publicly slammed the Masters event for the condition of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Alexander Zverev news<\/h2>\n
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