{"id":6527,"date":"2026-05-27T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/6527\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:52:07","slug":"zverev-eases-safely-through-french-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/6527\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev eases safely through French Open second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"912\" height=\"570\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fa67471d-alexander-zverev-epa-280526.webp\"\/>Alexander Zverev in action during the men\u2019s 2nd round match against Tomas Machac at the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris. (EPA Images pic)<br \/>\nPARIS: Alexander Zverev continued his bid for a maiden Grand Slam title with a comfortable victory over ailing Czech Tomas Machac in the French Open second round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The German second seed will face home player Quentin Halys on Friday for a place in the second week at Roland Garros after a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 win in the night session match on Court Philippe Chatrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cI\u2019m happy where I am, I\u2019m feeling confident in my game and moving forward, looking forward to hopefully being back on this court,\u201d said Zverev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Machac, the world number 43, struggled with his movement and took a lengthy medical time-out in the second set for treatment to his left foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cI thought for one and a half sets it was an amazing level\u2026 unfortunately the injury stopped the match flow a little bit,\u201d added Zverev. \u201cI\u2019m happy to finish it in three sets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Zverev took full advantage with a dominant display, saving the only break point he faced as he dismantled Machac in just an hour and 48 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The world number three has come closest to breaking his major duck in Paris, reaching at least the quarter-finals in each of the past five years, suffering a five-set loss to Carlos Alcaraz in the 2024 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev in action during the men\u2019s 2nd round match against Tomas Machac at the French Open at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[243,3290,207,2470,3291,3292,1959],"class_list":["post-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alexander-zverev","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-eases","tag-french-open","tag-round","tag-safely","tag-second","tag-zverev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}