Wow Stan plays two matches this week that are straight set affairs and not that hard and he's out of it? Obviously he doesn't know what makes his own game tick or he'd have a lot more success by now.
{“I had one bad game to start the second set and then it was tough for me,” Wawrinka, the reigning US Open champion, said. “I don’t know. I completely went down physically and mentally, and also my tennis was completely out. I had no more energy.”
“For sure it’s a disappointing match. I think the level was quite up and down. We were both fighting a little bit in the first set to find a good level. It was really humid, not easy to play some great tennis,” he added.
The 19-year-old Zverev saved four of five break points and won 75 percent of his service points.
“I had to be aggressive. I felt like he was the one controlling all the points all the time, so I had to change that. It worked out well for me,” Zverev said.}
I still think Zed rope a doped Stan a bit with his pushing in the first stages of the match. Zed absolutely took it up a gear or two and Wawrinka never was able to adjust. Some pace variation and a lot more depth/pace in general and Wawrinka never got the adrenaline running to keep up. The writer used the word exhausted. Wawrinka thought he went down physically and mentally..... had no more energy. I think Stan will get depressed on court some of the time. I love the excuses from the writer and the player when there is no basis for Stan to be drained with the amount he played before the match.
Kyrgios in two tight sets.
