By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday November 3, 2024
Anyone who watched Alexander Zverev muscle his well past Ugo Humbert in Sunday’s Paris Masters remaining is aware of that the German is coming into his personal on the ATP Tour.
However Sunday’s title – his seventh on the Masters degree and twenty third general – isn’t the endgame for the 27-year previous.
Zverev, who has hit the observe courts after his final two victories in Paris, has his sights on larger targets.
“I am extraordinarily glad. I am pleased about it,” he stated of his 6-2, 6-2 thrashing of Humbert in Bercy on Sunday. “However as I stated at first of the week, for me I need to enhance some issues for me to realize my actually massive targets.
“I am pleased with the ultimate. I am pleased with the event. In fact I am sitting right here with the trophy from a Masters 1000 occasion, however there are nonetheless some issues I need to enhance, and this can be a course of of some months, and I am enhancing for subsequent yr already hopefully.”
Zverev, who took over the ATP’s match win complete on Sunday with 66.
He’ll rise to No.2 within the ATP rankings this week, a pleasant accomplishment however not the quantity he needs to see subsequent to his title.
“I feel now when all people is taking part in and all people is taking part in at full power and all people is wholesome, it’s a must to win Grand Slams to turn into World No. 1,” he stated. “I am World No. 2 now, however I am 3,000 factors away from Jannik, roughly, perhaps extra even.
2024 ATP Tour win leaders: @AlexZverev 66
Jannik Sinner, 65
Carlos Alcaraz, 52The brand new World No.2 is racking up wins in 2024 🙌 pic.twitter.com/IvVqCTnT8O
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) November 3, 2024
“For me proper now it is about enhancing my sport. And the outcomes, I’ll let the outcomes come to me. I can’t pressure the outcomes. I did not come right here this week desirous about, ‘Oh, I for certain need to win this event. No, I need to enhance, I need to get higher, and I need to enhance my sport. That is what I am doing, and that is what I am making an attempt to do every single day.”
