On the Wawrinka-Zverev matchup

[Fedeonic]

I was bored and I started searching for matchups, and I found myself seeing Zverev leading 5-0! against Wawrinka, and in most of their matches, Stan was the favourite coming into the match, such as St. Petersburg 2016 and Miami 2017.
I may say that Zverev's first serve robs a lot of time from Stan and his relative consistency from the baseline neutralizes Wawrinka.

Discuss.

 

[Kemitak]

Disgust

 

[TheNachoMan]

Stan is pretty much fodder to every top player not named Djokovic. I’m convinced Federer had him constructed in a Swiss lab to take Novak out.

 

[Fed Kennedy]

Stan is the true GOAT but you have to respect the number of chains Zverev is sporting

 

[Mainad]

Stan is the true GOAT but you have to respect the number of chains Zverev is sporting

Tennis players of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!

(With apologies to Karl Marx).

 

[Kemitak]

That h2h is surprising, but Stan is playing pretty good tennis lately, whereas Zverev is struggling. If they play anytime soon, nobody beats the Stanimal 6 in a row….

 

[Fedeonic]

That h2h is surprising, but Stan is playing pretty good tennis lately, whereas Zverev is struggling. If they play anytime soon, nobody beats the Stanimal 6 in a row….

Well, the last time they played was at the Davis Cup this year, in which Sascha won, as always.

 

[am1899]

Abs, chains, and swag > magic shorts.

 

[Sudacafan]

Stan is pretty much fodder to every top player not named Djokovic. I’m convinced Federer had him constructed in a Swiss lab to take Novak out.

How Fed lost Montecarlo 2014 final to him, having had the luck of not facing Nadal, is a little annoyance in my Federer deceptions list.

 

[Rafa4LifeEver]

For some reason; Big3, Murray & Wawrinka all struggle to read Zverev's serve at times, Stan being the poorest returner amongst them by far makes matters worse for him. Additionally, in BO3 Stan is vulnerable to practically anyone, not in BO5 though. I legitimately believe he could have won their AO2020 encounter had he not run out of gas at that stage, the pure attacking tennis that he played against Medvedev & set1 against Zverev was impressive.

 

[BeatlesFan]

Stan is pretty much fodder to every top player not named Djokovic. I’m convinced Federer had him constructed in a Swiss lab to take Novak out.

Then Fed spectacularly failed since their H2H is 20-6 for Novak.

 

[Kemitak]

Well, the last time they played was at the Davis Cup this year, in which Sascha won, as always.

I forgot about that. I have no idea why this would be a difficult match-up for Stan.

 

[Fabresque]

That h2h is surprising, but Stan is playing pretty good tennis lately, whereas Zverev is struggling. If they play anytime soon, nobody beats the Stanimal 6 in a row….

They just played like a week ago and Zverev smashed him 6-4 6-1.

 

[Nadal_King]

Zverev is the last one who was able to match Djokovic in Australia, on some other day he could have won that Ao21 clash.Ever since that clash Djokovic has had it really easy in Australia. Not to forget he even threatened Rafa at Rg last year before that Horrible incident

 

[Legend of Borg]

Stan is pretty much fodder to every top player not named Djokovic. I’m convinced Federer had him constructed in a Swiss lab to take Novak out.

It's just a matchup issue.

Even taking that into account, Djokovic leads the h2h by a wide margin.

 

[BauerAlmeida]

Stan is pretty much fodder to every top player not named Djokovic. I’m convinced Federer had him constructed in a Swiss lab to take Novak out.

Not true, he beat Murray several times in big matches.

 

[NicoMK]

Stan is pretty much fodder to every top player not named Djokovic. I’m convinced Federer had him constructed in a Swiss lab to take Novak out.