By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennisnow | Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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Wimbledon—Tennis is a lonely sport.
Honest Alexander Zverev He confesses that he feels alone in life and cannot be related to the joy of playing at the moment.
Zverev with the third seed was the highest seed of men falling in the wimbledon’s opening round.
Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech finished a five -set win over Zverev today winning 44 out of 55 net trips and denying the nine points of rest he faced.
Zverev then said that the prestigious lawn of the center court felt like a deep hole that could not be saved.
Six months after his growing up in the Australian Open final, Zverev suffered his second career in the first round Wimbledon and opened in the abuse he is feeling.
“I would say more mental, surely. Funny funny. I feel very alone there occasionally,” Zverev said. “I fight mentally. I’ve said that after Australian Open. Yes, I just don’t know. I’m trying to find ways, trying to find ways to get out of this hole. I continue to find myself back in it in a way.
“Yes, I don’t know. I feel, in general, just enough in life at the moment, which is a feeling that is not very beautiful.”
What else is there?
Right now, Zverev said he is planning to take the break time before starting his difficult season in Canada.
The three-time finalist said he could see a therapist-and is also considering a new coach.
“Yes, maybe. Maybe for the first time in my life I will probably need (therapy),” Zverev said. “I have gone through a lot of difficulty. I have gone through a lot of difficulty in the media. I have gone through a lot of difficulty in life in general. I have never felt this empty before. It just has no joy, it just has no joy in everything I do. It is not necessarily about tennis. It just has no joy outside the tennis, too.
“Even when I am winning, even when I am winning like in Stuttgart or Halle, it is not necessarily, like, a feeling I got to get to where I was happy, over the moon, I felt motivated to go on. It is not just there for me, which, again, is the first time in my life.”
While Zverev has worked with high profile coaches in the past-including David Ferrer, who helped him guide him to the US Open Final and ex. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero, who has been extremely successful training Carlos Alcaraz-Ai continues to return to the familiarity of his father, Alexander Zverev, Sr., as coach.
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In his oppressor today, Zverev said it is possible that he could hire a new coach and admitted that he has no response in court.
“Maybe,” Zverev said when asked about a new coach. “As I said, yes, it’s another feeling now to me. I can’t speak at the moment. But I think I’ll have answers from Canada.”
However, the 28-year-old German reiterated that he is lonely and out of response.
“It’s not a feeling in a tennis court, it’s just a feeling of life in general,” Zverev said. “As I said, I never felt this way before. I don’t know. It is hard to find joy outside the tennis court for me at the moment. It’s not an excuse or nothing. I think Arthur deserved to win today. It’s nothing that.
“Something’s something I have felt for the last few months. Again, I just feel very much, very single and very lonely. I don’t know. Just never felt before. I don’t answer now.”
