{"id":24470,"date":"2025-10-04T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/alexander-zverev-court-is-late-to-help-the-criminal-alkaraz\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:44:54","slug":"alexander-zverev-court-is-late-to-help-the-criminal-alkaraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/alexander-zverev-court-is-late-to-help-the-criminal-alkaraz\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev: Court is late to help the criminal, Alkaraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Alexander Zverev says tournament organizers are slowing down tennis courts in support of Carlos Alkaraz and Giannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 3 Zverev overcame the fear of injuries he defeated Valentin Royer 6-4, 6-4 at the Masters in Shanghai on Saturday, but later expressed his dissatisfaction with the way he felt the sport was headed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be honest, I hate the same thing,&#8221; Zverev said in an on-court interview. &#8220;I think the tournament directors are heading in that direction, obviously because they want Janik and Carlos to do all the tournaments well, that&#8217;s what they like.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, you can play almost the same on every surface. I don&#8217;t like it. I&#8217;m not a fan of it. I think tennis requires a variety of different game styles. Tennis requires a little variety.<\/p>\n<p>Alkaraz and Sinner are the only two players to hold the No. 1 ranking since June 2024. They split the four Grand Slams of the year, both stripping the title victory &#8211; the sinner of the China Open at the Japan Open &#8211; Alkaraz is losing the Shanghai master due to a left ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev had to be treated in court for a toe injury when playing in the match 5-4, but did not stop his progress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I landed on my toes and amusing, and then I was able to take a step, so I&#8217;ll see what it is,&#8221; he said. \u201cWe will see if we will be healthy again this year, because it was a struggle.<\/p>\n<p><em>The PA contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev says tournament organizers are slowing down tennis courts in support of Carlos Alkaraz and Giannik Sinner. World No. 3 Zverev overcame the fear of injuries he defeated Valentin Royer 6-4, 6-4 at the Masters in Shanghai on Saturday, but later expressed his dissatisfaction with the way he felt the sport was headed. &#8220;To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[289,1556,2539,59,1755,24,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-24470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander","9":"tag-alkaraz","10":"tag-court","11":"tag-criminal","12":"tag-late","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-zverev"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}