For the first time in his career Zverev reached the final of the Grand Slam tournament. Before that, he had not been able to do this, although this year he was already one step away from the decisive match. At Australian Open Sasha just lost to Dominic Tim. Then the German tennis player won the first game, but failed to maintain the advantage (6-3, 4-6, 6-7, 6-7). At this tournament Zverev still leaves ambiguous impressions of his game. The representative of Germany seems to be winning, but he does it hesitantly. Alexander looks especially bad in the first games. Judge for yourself, Zverev had all six lost sets in this tournament in the first half of the game. But by the end of the meeting Sasha accelerated and swept away his rivals. The most difficult for him was the semifinal match against the Spaniard Carreno-Busta. Zverev lost during the meeting with a score of 0-2, but still managed to snatch a victory (3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3). In the rest of the matches here, he beat Kevin Anderson, Brandon Nakashima, Adrian Mannarino, Alejandro Davidovich and Bornu Coric.
The tandem of Kauai Leonard and Paul George performed as expected this time, but gave up early. Surprisingly, the renowned clutch masters were not ready for the Denver Nuggets’ dash in the final 12 minutes. When Doc Rivers’ basketball players realized it, it was too late. All attempts by Los Angeles to stop the opponent’s spurt ended with only 10 penalties from beyond the arc. Shooting without preparation is not the best tactic in the conference semifinals.
