Zverev agrees with Alcaraz with the 5 sets: “It’s history, it’s the most difficult thing in sport”

The German Alexander Zverev29 years old, and Spanish Carlos Alcaraz23, had time to spend a few hours together during the Laver Cup in London. Then each one went their own way. The man from Murcia opted to compete in Tokyo, while the man from Hamburg is playing in Beijing. They both have dates this Saturday.

Carlos Alcaraz He plays, at 05:30 in the Spanish morning, against the Italian Matteo Arnaldi. Alexander Zverev Chinese is measured Juncheng Shang, at one in the afternoon. They have the common goal of victory, of getting into the quarterfinals.

Zverev, with two Grand Slam titles after winning the last Roland Garros and US Open, and Alcaraz, with seven ‘greats’ in his record, including the Australian Open that opened the season, agree in defending the formula of best-of-five-set matches.

“The beauty of Grand Slam tournaments is playing the best of five sets. If we eliminate this, we go on to compete in three sets, we are ending the legacy of the Grand Slams, we are ending the Grand Slams themselves,” he said in Tokyo Alcaraz.

He picked up the gauntlet in Beijing Alexander Zverev who defended the thesis to which the Spaniard joined. “A Grand Slam is different because we play the best of five sets. It’s history. It’s part of what we do, why we prepare so thoroughly physically,” said the German.

“It is the most difficult thing in sport, playing the best of five sets,” he stressed. Zverev, who, speaking about the formats, alluded to the fact that there is no exemption from the first round for the favorites in the opening round of the Masters 1000. “I like it better like here in Beijing, where we all enter directly from the first round, without exception,” he meant. It is the formula of the 500 category ATPs, as is the case of Barcelona.