Dominic Thiem has assessed Alexander Zverev\u2019s chances of winning a Grand Slam title and also named his three favourites to win the 2025 French Open.<\/p>\n
Zverev<\/a> secured his first title of 2025 at the ATP 500 tournament in Munich last week, where he cruised past Ben Shelton 6-2, 6-4 in the final.<\/p>\n The world No 2\u2019s triumph on home soil ended a barren run that followed his defeat to Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open final in January \u2014 a loss that took his record in major finals to 0-3.<\/p>\n In his maiden Grand Slam championship match, Zverev lost to Thiem in a tension-riddled five-set 2020 US Open battle after leading by two sets to love and serving for the match in the fifth set.<\/p>\n The German also lost in five sets to Carlos Alcaraz in the 2024 French Open title match having held a 2-1 lead in sets.<\/p>\n After Zverev\u2019s Munich Open title win, Thiem revealed he was impressed by his former rival\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n \u201cSascha was too good. I don\u2019t think Shelton played badly, but I was watching it live and it\u2019s unbelievable,\u201d the Austrian told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n \u201cShelton served well at 220, 225 km\/h and Sascha just stands back and neutralises the balls on the return. That\u2019s sensational. It\u2019s such small things and that\u2019s why he deserved to win.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018I believe Novak Djokovic can win more Slams \u2013 in tennis terms, he is the best\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Alexander Zverev finds an interesting word to describe tennis drug testers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Asked if Zverev can make his Grand Slam breakthrough this year, Thiem identified the German as a leading French Open contender \u2014 alongside Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s realistic for Sascha [to win] at every Grand Slam. He\u2019s just so good,\u201d said the former world No 3.<\/p>\n \u201cYou saw that in Australia too. I think the slight dip in form he had afterwards is completely normal.<\/p>\n \u201cNow in Munich he has recovered, just at the right time. There are still two cool, big tournaments to go before the French Open.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is also one of the absolute top favourites at the French Open with Alcaraz and Sinner. Everything has to go well for a Grand Slam, but if that happens, he\u2019s absolutely capable of winning it.\u201d<\/p>\n Zverev is looking to build on his Munich victory at the Madrid Masters, where he crushed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-2 in his opening match.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old is the top seed in Madrid as he chases a third title in the Spanish capital.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0<\/strong>The 10 men to spend 52+ consecutive weeks as world No 1: Jannik Sinner guaranteed milestone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The post Dominic Thiem rates Alexander Zverev\u2019s Grand Slam hopes as he names French Open favourites<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dominic Thiem has assessed Alexander Zverev\u2019s chances of winning a Grand Slam title and also named his three favourites to win the 2025 French Open. Zverev secured his first title of 2025 at the ATP 500 tournament in Munich last week, where he cruised past Ben Shelton 6-2, 6-4 in the final. The world No […]<\/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-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n