Alexander Zverev achieved his biggest ever victory at Roland Garros, but his attention has already turned towards the grass court swing.<\/p>\n
The German won his first-ever Grand Slam in Paris after defeating Flavio Cobolli in a five-set final, but now he is looking to turn around his grass court form.<\/p>\n
Zverev has only ever reached as far as the fourth round of Wimbledon and he is yet to earn an ATP Tour singles title on the surface.<\/p>\n
He will be hoping to change that at the Halle Open, his first tournament since Roland Garros, as several top stars begin their progress on the grass.<\/p>\n
Zverev is already looking to put his Roland Garros win in the rearview mirror as he looks to win the Halle Open for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n
Halle Open: Nick Kyrgios gets blockbuster first match and Alexander Zverev finds out his draw<\/a><\/p>\n Alexander Zverev explains the reason he\u2019s never performed very well on grass<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking to press ahead of the German event, he said: \u201cThe tournament is in Germany, so you want to perform and play at your best. I\u2019ve been practising quite hard and practising quite [well]. It\u2019s a tough adjustment from a good but long clay-court season to a grass court in a couple of days. But I\u2019ll do my best and will be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Zverev<\/a> also issued a worrying update about his progress on the surface ahead of his appearance at the Halle Open and Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Asked how his grass court game is shaping up, he responded: \u201cI don\u2019t know yet, I\u2019ll be honest. I\u2019ve only had two practice days.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a tough adjustment, it\u2019s tough to come from the clay courts to grass courts and we didn\u2019t have the best weather here yet, so I haven\u2019t had a lot of practice, but tennis-wise I do feel like I\u2019m playing good. Of course I played well the past couple of weeks, but the adjustment is the one that needs some time.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t have time yet, so I hope the next two days will be sunshine and I can practise a lot and just be ready on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n Zverev reached back-to-back finals at the Halle Open in 2016 and 2017, but he is yet to claim the title. He was beaten by Florian Mayer and Roger Federer<\/a> in back-to-back years.<\/p>\n The star has not reached the final since, but he has played the event several times over the years.<\/p>\n He will play V\u00edt Kop\u0159iva in the first round of this year\u2019s event as he looks to claim the first grass court title of his career.<\/p>\n He has been drawn in the same side of the draw as Joao Fonseca<\/a>, Taylor Fritz<\/a>, Alexander Bublik<\/a>, and Nick Kyrgios<\/a>, so it will not be easy for the number one seed.<\/p>\n The post Alexander Zverev says what he\u2019s been struggling with most ahead of Wimbledon \u2013 \u2018I\u2019ll be honest\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alexander Zverev achieved his biggest ever victory at Roland Garros, but his attention has already turned towards the grass court swing. The German won his first-ever Grand Slam in Paris after defeating Flavio Cobolli in a five-set final, but now he is looking to turn around his grass court form. Zverev has only ever reached […]<\/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-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","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=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}