Alexander Zverev continued his progress at Roland Garros by defeating Jesper de Jong in straight sets to confirm his place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
The German is one of the clear favourites to win the Grand Slam after the exits of Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner and a victory in Paris would mark his first Grand Slam victory.<\/p>\n
He showed no signs of the pressure getting to him against the de Jong, who was enjoying a dream tournament after entering as a lucky loser.<\/p>\n
Zverev won the match 7-6, 6-4, 6-1 to set up a mouth-watering tie with Rafael Jodar in the quarter-finals and he has joined the \u2018big three\u2019 by reaching the last eight yet again.<\/p>\n
John McEnroe warns Alexander Zverev what might happen if he doesn\u2019t win the French Open <\/a><\/p>\n Alexander Zverev reacts to Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic\u2019s early exits at Roland Garros<\/a><\/p>\n The German\u2019s appearance in the quarter-finals of Roland Garros<\/a> will be his sixth in a row, which is a record that only Rafael Nadal<\/a>, Roger Federer<\/a>, and Rafael Nadal<\/a> have managed in tennis history.<\/p>\n Speaking on-court after the match, Zverev<\/a> said: \u201cIn the beginning it was a bit difficult. I didn\u2019t start of strong and he started off really fast and really well. Once I found my rhythm I felt very comfortable on the court and that\u2019s the most important thing for me.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like my game is there and now it\u2019s about showing it on the match courts. I prefer when it\u2019s hot to be honest. I like heat. I feel like my ball is a lot faster. Everything is a lot faster through the air. My opponent struggles a little bit more, so that\u2019s always nice.<\/p>\n \u201cI spent a lot of time in Florida so I\u2019m used to the heat. I\u2019m used to these hot conditions. We have to make the best of it. This is Paris. This is like Germany, it can change within one day! I\u2019m used to that as well, so I hope I can continue showing good tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n With Jodar<\/a> to come next, Zverev previewed his match with the talented Spanish teenager.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a very young player, incredibly talented,\u201d said Zverev of Jodar before their meeting in the last eight. \u201cHe\u2019s come on the scene this clay court season from being ranked outside the top 100 to ranked top 20 in two months.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s playing incredible tennis, it\u2019s going to be a difficult challenge, but I have to trust myself. I\u2019ll be ready for it. As everyone knows, I love to play on Philippe-Chatrier in front of a full crowd.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like the French crowd is always very energetic, very passionate, and I really enjoy being here. I hope in two days time I\u2019ll enjoy it as much as today!\u201d<\/p>\n Zverev and Jodar are the first two male players to confirm their place in the quarter-finals of Roland Garros. Jodar defeated compatriot Pablo Carreno Busta in five sets to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n The post Alexander Zverev matches Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic achievement after latest Roland Garros win<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alexander Zverev continued his progress at Roland Garros by defeating Jesper de Jong in straight sets to confirm his place in the quarter-finals. The German is one of the clear favourites to win the Grand Slam after the exits of Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner and a victory in Paris would mark his first Grand […]<\/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-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","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=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}