By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday, November 3, 2024
Anyone watching Alexander Zverev beats Ugo Humbert in Sunday’s Paris Masters final, I know the German will hold his own on the ATP Tour.
But Sunday’s title – his seventh at Masters level and 23rd overall – is not the end of the game for the 27-year-old.
Zverev, who has hit the practice courts after his last two wins in Paris, has his sights set on bigger goals.
“I am extremely pleased. I’m happy about that,” he said of his 6-2, 6-2 defeat of Humbert in Bercy on Sunday. “But as I said earlier in the week, for me I want to improve some things to achieve my really big goals.
“I am satisfied with the final. I am satisfied with the tournament. Of course I’m sitting here with the trophy of a Masters 1000 event, but there are still some things I want to improve, and this is a process of several months, and hopefully I’m already improving for next year.”
Zverev, who took the ATP total on Sunday with 66.
He will move up to No. 2 in the ATP rankings this week, a nice achievement, but not the number he wants to see next to his name.
“I think now that everyone is playing and everyone is playing at full strength and everyone is healthy, you have to win Grand Slams to become No. 1 in the World,” he said. “I’m number 2 in the world right now, but I’m 3,000 points away from Jannik, more or less, maybe even more.
ATP Tour 2024 victory leaders: @AlexZverev 66
Jannik Sinner, 65 years old
Carlos Alcaraz, 52 years oldThe new World No. 2 is racking up wins in 2024 🙌 pic.twitter.com/IvVqCTnT8O
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) November 3, 2024
“For me now it’s about improving my game. And the results, I’ll let the results come to me. I can’t force results. I didn’t come here this week thinking, ‘Oh, I definitely want to win this tournament. No, I want to improve, I want to improve and I want to improve my game. That’s what I’m doing and that’s what I’m trying to do every day.”
