By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday November 3, 2024
Anyone who watched Alexander Zverev muscle his well beyond Ugo Humbert in Sunday’s Paris Masters last is aware of that the German is coming into his personal on the ATP Tour.
However Sunday’s title – his seventh on the Masters degree and twenty third total – shouldn’t be the endgame for the 27-year previous.
Zverev, who has hit the apply courts after his final two victories in Paris, has his sights on greater objectives.
“I am extraordinarily glad. I am pleased about it,” he mentioned of his 6-2, 6-2 thrashing of Humbert in Bercy on Sunday. “However as I mentioned to start with of the week, for me I wish to enhance some issues for me to attain my actually huge objectives.
“I am pleased with the ultimate. I am pleased with the match. In fact I am sitting right here with the trophy from a Masters 1000 occasion, however there are nonetheless some issues I wish to enhance, and this can be a course of of some months, and I am bettering for subsequent 12 months already hopefully.”
Zverev, who took over the ATP’s match win complete on Sunday with 66.
He’ll rise to No.2 within the ATP rankings this week, a pleasant accomplishment however not the quantity he needs to see subsequent to his title.
“I feel now when everyone is enjoying and everyone is enjoying at full power and everyone is wholesome, you need to win Grand Slams to grow to be World No. 1,” he mentioned. “I am World No. 2 now, however I am 3,000 factors away from Jannik, kind of, possibly extra even.
2024 ATP Tour win leaders: @AlexZverev 66
Jannik Sinner, 65
Carlos Alcaraz, 52The brand new World No.2 is racking up wins in 2024 🙌 pic.twitter.com/IvVqCTnT8O
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) November 3, 2024
“For me proper now it is about bettering my recreation. And the outcomes, I’ll let the outcomes come to me. I can’t power the outcomes. I did not come right here this week fascinated by, ‘Oh, I for certain wish to win this match. No, I wish to enhance, I wish to get higher, and I wish to enhance my recreation. That is what I am doing, and that is what I am making an attempt to do day-after-day.”
