Boris Becker - "The young generation has now taken over"
Boris Becker took stock of the US Open 2021 in the Eurosport podcast "The Yellow from the Ball". The conclusion of the three-time Wimbledon champion: Satisfaction with the performance of Alexander Zverev is appropriate. And the generation change is as good as complete -
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last edit: Sep 16, 2021, 10:34 pm
The 2021 Grand Slam season is history, Boris Becker accompanied three of the four majors for Eurosport as an expert. Only in Wimbledon was the tennis icon not heard on German-language TV, as Becker worked as usual for the BBC. In the Eurosport podcast "The Yellow from the Ball", Becker has now drawn a final résumé of the 14 days in New York. As the former coach of Novak Djokovic , the "Red Baron" would of course have liked to accompany the completion of the world's number one calendar grand slam, alone: It shouldn't be - Daniil Medvedev had something against it.
"I've never seen Novak cry on the tennis court," said Becker. "He must have really gone to his limit or over the limit emotionally. That made his speech afterwards all the more astonishing. And that on a day on which he could not use the perhaps unique chance to win all major in one year. That was an unbelievable situation, a crazy present. Those were just open, honest and great words at a very difficult moment. "
Zverev continues without a win against top ten players at majors
Djokovic's last match win in the Grand Slam year 2021 came in the semifinals against Alexander Zverev, whom he was able to defeat after five hard sets. Which means that the German number one has to wait for a success against a top ten player in a major. Zverev has started eleven attempts in total, lost in the current season in Australia and New York against Djokovic, in Roland Garros against Stefanos Tsitsipas. Boris Becker is nevertheless impressed. "But I really liked the way Sascha played. He played very aggressively throughout the tournament, whether it was on the serve, which is an absolute bank again, or in the return games it came often to the net and was able to make his game variable. This is simply the best Zverev I've seen so far. "
But Becker particularly liked the next generation after Alexander Zverev. Here he already sees the big changing of the guard in tennis coming. "The young generation has now taken over. There are a large number of very young players, such as Alcaraz, Rune, Sinner, Auger-Aliassime - there are Zverev, Tsitsipas and Medvedev in their middle ages. We can be happy that this is so fascinating, are great young players. Something's happening right now. We've probably been talking about it for years now, when will the boys make it, when can they take over - it has happened! "