Former world No 5 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has declared Alexander Zverev is \u201con a mission\u201d at the 2026 French Open as he shared some interesting information about the German\u2019s time in Paris.<\/p>\n
World No 3 Zverev, who is seeded second at Roland Garros, is chasing his maiden Grand Slam title, having previously lost in three major finals.<\/p>\n
Carlos Alcaraz, the world No 2 and two-time reigning French Open champion, withdrew before the tournament due to a wrist injury.<\/p>\n
Zverev<\/a> became the strong favourite to triumph on the Parisian clay after the shock early exits of world No 1 Jannik Sinner and 24-time Slam champion Novak Djokovic meant no major winners were left in the draw.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old is widely considered to be one of the best players in tennis history not to win a Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n The German has won 24 ATP Tour singles titles, including an Olympic gold medal, two ATP Finals crowns and seven Masters 1000 titles.<\/p>\n Andre Agassi rips into Jannik Sinner with brutal take down as he insists \u2018there\u2019s no excuse for him\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Roland Garros WTA Rankings Winners & Losers: Chwalinska, Andreeva, Kostyuk climb; Sabalenka, Gauff suffer blows<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking on Amazon Prime Video France, Tsonga revealed he spoke to Zverev\u2019s team before his semi-final match against Jakub Mensik at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n \u201cIn any case, one thing is certain, he\u2019s on a mission,\u201d said the Frenchman, who was a runner-up at the 2008 Australian Open.<\/p>\n \u201cI ran into his team yesterday and they told me he wasn\u2019t leaving his [hotel] room, except for an hour or an hour and a half when he called his team, who had to be absolutely available to go eat and get a little fresh air.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the rest of the time, he\u2019s focused on the objective.\u201d<\/p>\n If Zverev defeats Mensik, he will face either Flavio Cobolli or Matteo Arnaldi in the championship match on Sunday.<\/p>\n Following his quarter-final victory against Rafael Jodar, Zverev expressed his focus on the task ahead when asked if he was excited to reach his fifth French Open semi-final.<\/p>\n \u201cNot really. I don\u2019t really care! I want to keep going, of course, I want to be in the tournament,\u201d said Zverev<\/p>\n \u201cI want to win the matches that are ahead of me. That\u2019s my goal, that\u2019s my aim.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: \u2018Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s wrist injury is complicated \u2013 I know many players who have suffered this injury\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Alexander Zverev \u2018on a mission\u2019 at Roland Garros as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga shares insider knowledge<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former world No 5 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has declared Alexander Zverev is \u201con a mission\u201d at the 2026 French Open as he shared some interesting information about the German\u2019s time in Paris. World No 3 Zverev, who is seeded second at Roland Garros, is chasing his maiden Grand Slam title, having previously lost in three major […]<\/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-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","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=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open News<\/h2>\n