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‘Learn from Roger and Rafa’ – Zverev aims dig at Medvedev and Tsitsipas after US Open exit
George Bellshaw
Tuesday 3 Sep 2019 12:48 am
‘No, I mean, it’s been a much better week for me than it’s been in the last few months. Yeah, I can take positives out of that. I mean, obviously it was difficult conditions for me. It was very slow out there. The court was playing very low and very slow. Actually the opposite of what would be preferred for me. ‘But, you know, credit to him.
He played a great match. I thought he was playing very aggressive. You know, he’s playing well.’
Attention soon turned to Medvedev’s antics at the US Open. The young Russian – who faces Stan Wawrinka in the quarter-finals on Tuesday – has been taking on the US Open crowd, lapping up their boos and mocking them in his post-match interviews; behaviour Zverev believes is crossing the line. And for good measure he threw Tsitsipas under the bus, too, while warning his colleagues to become known for their tennis abilities rather than any external factors.
‘There’s a lot of young guys that do things on the tennis court that maybe is not the best thing to do,’ Zverev moaned. ‘I don’t want the next generation to be known for that. ‘I think a lot of the times Tsitsipas gets over the line with changing his shoes 15 times in a tournament, going to the bathroom in the middle of a set. Stuff like that… ‘Let your tennis racquet talk for you kind of. You don’t need to do things to distract the opponent, try to win that way. ‘Medvedev is obviously going over the line a little bit now. But he’s winning. He’s in the quarterfinals. He’s playing Stan. At the end of the day it all doesn’t matter if you’re winning.
‘But, yeah, I hope some of the NextGen or the young guys will kind of learn from the older guys like Roger [Federer] and Rafa [Nadal] who have been unbelievable over their career, really let their racquet talk for them, not try to distract opponents, something like that.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/03/lear...tifcation-small&utm_source=pushly?ito=cbshare
George Bellshaw
Tuesday 3 Sep 2019 12:48 am
‘No, I mean, it’s been a much better week for me than it’s been in the last few months. Yeah, I can take positives out of that. I mean, obviously it was difficult conditions for me. It was very slow out there. The court was playing very low and very slow. Actually the opposite of what would be preferred for me. ‘But, you know, credit to him.
He played a great match. I thought he was playing very aggressive. You know, he’s playing well.’
Attention soon turned to Medvedev’s antics at the US Open. The young Russian – who faces Stan Wawrinka in the quarter-finals on Tuesday – has been taking on the US Open crowd, lapping up their boos and mocking them in his post-match interviews; behaviour Zverev believes is crossing the line. And for good measure he threw Tsitsipas under the bus, too, while warning his colleagues to become known for their tennis abilities rather than any external factors.
‘There’s a lot of young guys that do things on the tennis court that maybe is not the best thing to do,’ Zverev moaned. ‘I don’t want the next generation to be known for that. ‘I think a lot of the times Tsitsipas gets over the line with changing his shoes 15 times in a tournament, going to the bathroom in the middle of a set. Stuff like that… ‘Let your tennis racquet talk for you kind of. You don’t need to do things to distract the opponent, try to win that way. ‘Medvedev is obviously going over the line a little bit now. But he’s winning. He’s in the quarterfinals. He’s playing Stan. At the end of the day it all doesn’t matter if you’re winning.
‘But, yeah, I hope some of the NextGen or the young guys will kind of learn from the older guys like Roger [Federer] and Rafa [Nadal] who have been unbelievable over their career, really let their racquet talk for them, not try to distract opponents, something like that.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/03/lear...tifcation-small&utm_source=pushly?ito=cbshare
