Alexander Zverev suffered another blow in his quest to win a maiden Grand Slam title at the 2025 US Open, and acclaimed tennis coach Rick Macci believes the German\u2019s mentality is holding him back.<\/p>\n
The world No 3 suffered a surprise 6-4, 6-7(7), 4-6, 4-6 defeat to world No 27 Felix Auger-Aliassime in three hours and 49 minutes in the third round at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n
It was Zverev<\/a>\u2018s second successive early exit at a Grand Slam after he fell in the opening round of Wimbledon to Arthur Rinderknech last month. The German\u2019s quarter-final loss to Novak Djokovic<\/a> at this year\u2019s French Open was his earliest loss at Roland Garros since 2020.<\/p>\n Zverev\u2019s dip in form at the majors comes after he lost in straight sets to Jannik Sinner<\/a> in the Australian Open final in January.<\/p>\n That Melbourne blow was Zverev\u2019s third defeat in as many Grand Slam championship matches after five-set losses to Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> at the 2024 French Open and Dominic Thiem at the 2020 US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n The rise of Sinner and Alcaraz, who have won the last seven majors between them, means Zverev\u2019s hopes of winning a Grand Slam appear bleaker than ever.<\/p>\n In an exclusive interview with Tennis365, Macci<\/a> gave his verdict on whether the 28-year-old German can still win a Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s possible,\u201d said the former coach of Venus and Serena Williams. \u201cIt\u2019s possible because he\u2019s rock solid off the ground. The forehand can be a little dicey at times. He has one of the best serves, he moves great, defends great for a big guy.<\/p>\n Is Alexander Zverev\u2019s Grand Slam dream officially over after shock Felix Auger-Aliassime US Open loss?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n How Alexander Zverev emulated an unwanted Rafael Nadal feat with early US Open loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what goes on sometimes with him mentally. He kind of is in and out a little bit.<\/p>\n \u201cBut he\u2019s capable and if there would have been anybody that I thought would have visited that neighbourhood (winning a major), he would have been the one because he has the serve and he\u2019s solid off the ground and he moves well.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it\u2019ll be interesting to see if he can flip the script. But then again everybody else is getting better. I don\u2019t know, mentally he just seems like sometimes he goes away too easily. And to be great, you gotta be there every point.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if Zverev\u2019s collaboration with renowned coach Toni Nadal could help, Macci said: \u201cAbsolutely, it can\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n \u201cBut once again, it depends on what the person\u2019s saying, how you\u2019re receiving it. Are you gonna apply it? What little modifications or adaptations are you gonna make to your game?\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Alexander Zverev tactic criticised by US Open rival as Novak Djokovic is also called out<\/a> The post Alexander Zverev told what is stopping him from winning a Grand Slam by Serena Williams\u2019 ex-coach<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alexander Zverev suffered another blow in his quest to win a maiden Grand Slam title at the 2025 US Open, and acclaimed tennis coach Rick Macci believes the German\u2019s mentality is holding him back. The world No 3 suffered a surprise 6-4, 6-7(7), 4-6, 4-6 defeat to world No 27 Felix Auger-Aliassime in three hours […]<\/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-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Alexander Zverev News<\/h2>\n
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