{"id":82575,"date":"2025-05-07T18:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/82575\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:57:13","slug":"alexander-zverev-makes-comment-about-carlos-alcaraz-and-novak-djokovic-as-he-defends-his-number-two-ranking-i-have-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/82575\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev makes comment about Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic as he defends his number two ranking, ‘I have results’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alexander Zverev fired back at comments made about whether he deserves to be the World number two<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The German regained the position from Carlos Alcaraz after the Spaniard missed the Madrid Open<\/a> due to injury.<\/p>\n

After reaching the third round in the Spanish capital this season, Zverev holds a slender 235-point lead over the four-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n

Therefore he will enter the Italian Open<\/a> as the number two seed behind Jannik Sinner<\/a>, who is going to play his first tournament since January now his three-month doping ban is over.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Dan Istitene\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Alexander Zverev<\/a> took time to defend his World number two running soon after Rennae Stubbs<\/a> shared her thoughts on the topic.<\/p>\n

She used her podcast to say she does not believe that the 27-year-old deserves this ranking spot given his poor form of late, excluded his Munich Open<\/a> victory.<\/p>\n

But ahead of the Italian Open<\/a> where he is the defending champion, Zverev hit back at those comments and used Novak Djokovic<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> to reinforce his point.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think the media also loves to put players down, right? I had a bad two months before Munich, right? I didn\u2019t play great tennis before Munich,\u201d Zverev told the reporters.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by WILLIAM WEST\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden I\u2019m like the worst world No. 2 in the world ever. I don\u2019t deserve to be there. I\u2019m there because I won tournaments. I\u2019m there because I have results. The ranking system doesn\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get points for winning matches, you get points for winning titles. Yes, I know I didn\u2019t play up to my standard. I know I didn\u2019t play up to what I wanted to do. But neither did Carlos. Then he won Monte-Carlo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are periods in a player\u2019s career\u2026 Do you think Novak is happy with his results? Do you think Carlos is happy with his results? I\u2019m not happy with my results.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day in big matches, big moments, I still believe the top players will rise. And I still believe that I am going to find my tennis for the biggest tournaments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Tullio Puglia\/Getty ImagesAlexander Zverev aims to defend Italian Open title<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zverev would love nothing more than to provide any detractors wrong by defending the Italian Open<\/a> title.<\/p>\n

Winning this title in 2024 meant it was Zverev\u2019s first at Masters 1000 level for three years, and he plans on succeeding at the Foro Italico once again.<\/p>\n

Zverev has struggled for form this season but he gained some confidence after winning the Munich Open and he will aim to replicate that form in the Italian capital.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll in all I thought my level of tennis was okay [in Madrid],\u201d Zverev said. \u201cI thought I played three pretty good matches there. Also winning Munich the week before\u2026 I feel like my tennis is at the right spot right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel confident here. I really like the place, so I hope I can play as well as last year and win a lot of matches.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev fired back at comments made about whether he deserves to be the World number two. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4721,4294,6359,4295,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-82575","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-carlos-alcaraz","11":"tag-novak-djokovic","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114468083919305565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82575","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=82575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}