{"id":76284,"date":"2025-05-05T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76284\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:05:09","slug":"tracy-austin-and-jim-courier-disagree-over-who-is-more-likely-to-win-a-grand-slam-out-of-alexander-zverev-jakub-mensik-and-joao-fonseca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76284\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Austin and Jim Courier disagree over who is more likely to win a Grand Slam out of Alexander Zverev, Jakub Mensik and Joao Fonseca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The clay court season is building towards the French Open, which gets underway in Paris later this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The French Open continues the 2025 Grand Slam season, with Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys having won the Australian Open titles.<\/p>\n

ATP<\/a> number one Sinner accepted a three-month ban<\/a> after lifting the trophy in Melbourne, with his comeback now imminent.<\/p>\n

Sinner has maintained his spot atop the world rankings<\/a>, with the likes of Alexander Zverev<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz failing to capitalise on his absence.<\/p>\n

The Italian is expected to return on home soil at the Rome Masters before returning to Grand Slam action at the French Open.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Quinn Rooney\/Getty ImagesTracy Austin backs Alexander Zverev Grand Slam success over Joao Fonseca and Jakub Mensik<\/p>\n

A losing finalist at last year\u2019s French Open and this year\u2019s Australian Open, Zverev has now been involved in a debate alongside rising stars Joao Fonseca<\/a> and Jakub Mensik<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Discussing who is most likely to win a major among the trio, former world number one Tracy Austin<\/a> said on the Tennis Channel Live Podcast: \u201cI am going to go with Zverev because he has gotten there a couple of times. He is closer to coming across those seven matches and winning.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Joao Fonseca pinpoints the round he is aiming to reach at the French Open this year as he states his main goal<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFonseca could win five or six, but he is so far away from it right now if I had to bet my life on it, I would go with Zverev. And Mensik.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Jim Courier tips Joao Fonseca for Grand Slam title over Alexander Zverev and Jakub Mensik<\/p>\n

As Austin mentioned, Zverev has come close to getting over the line on the biggest stage in men\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n

Heartbreakingly for the German, however, he has lost all three of his career Grand Slam final appearances.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev calls for rule change after controversy in his Madrid Open win over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Along with the defeats to Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in Australia and France respectively, Zverev lost the 2020 US Open final to Dominic thiem.<\/p>\n

But former world number one Jim Courier<\/a> thinks that trend will end soon, saying of Zverev, Fonseca and Mensik: \u201cI think all of them are going to win one.<\/p>\n\n\nCurrent rank<\/strong><\/td>\nCareer-high<\/strong><\/td>\nTitles<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAlexander Zverev<\/strong><\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJakub Mensik<\/strong><\/td>\n21<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJoao Fonseca<\/strong><\/td>\n65<\/td>\n59<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Alexander Zverev, Jakub Mensik and Joao Fonseca ATP stats<\/p>\n

\u201cI do [think Zverev will win one]. He has the scar tissue the others don\u2019t have but I think he will keep putting himself in position.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if you had to tell me who would end up winning the most, I would pick Fonseca. For me, Fonseca looks like he is going to be able to do well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clay court season is building towards the French Open, which gets underway in Paris later this month.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4721,4294,35716,23860,25761,79,1068,36656,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-76284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander-zverev","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-jakub-mensik","11":"tag-jim-courier","12":"tag-joao-fonseca","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-tracy-austin","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114454903160241767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}