Michael Kohlmann about Alexander Zverev: "In the process of using your full potential
In an interview with Tennis Magazin , the German Davis Cup boss Michael Kohlmann talks about the development of the country's number one, about the development of Alexander Zverev .
by Michael Rothschädl
last edit: Nov 28, 2020, 10:09 pm
Alexander Zverev can look back on a consistently successful 2020 season. Right at the start of the year, Germany's number one achieved its best result in a major. The 23-year-old played his way into the semifinals at the Australian Open, which should be the last stop in four extremely competitive sets against Dominic Thiem. About eight months later, the same should again be the spoilsport at Zverev's next Grand Slam run, in the final of the US Open the Austrian won again.
Michael Kohlmann, Davis Cup boss of the Germans, also sees that game as a central indicator for the playful improvement of the Hamburg native: "I think that he has just shown at the US Open that he can also be in phases where he cannot be plays the best tennis, but still looks for and finds solutions and wins matches. That is what makes the great players. Especially in the final against Dominic Thiem, he was the much better player over the first two sets. "
"Can only be kept in check by a few players"
Kohlmann would have been particularly impressed by the German's powerful game, as Kohlmann explains in an interview with Tennis Magazin : "I even had the feeling that when he really messed up his game so that only a very few players could keep him in check. I think he is just about to reach his full potential, "said the German.
At the French Open, on the other hand, where Zverev failed in the second round to Jannik Sinner, the 23-year-old from Hamburg did not play perfectly, the position was not what it needed on this surface, elaborates Kohlmann. But this is probably due to the shortened preparation time: Zverev was unable to complete a single preparation tournament on clay in front of the major in Paris. "But with the US Open he set himself apart from all the younger players."