While Alexander Zverev will try this Sunday in the final of the Australian Open against Jannik Sinner to win his long-awaited first Grand Slam title at the age of 27, for his third final, journalist Frédéric Verdier criticized his communication during the show “Sans Filet” from Winamax.
“There is something that bothers me enormously with Zverev, which does not date from today, on his claims to win a Grand Slam. He's talking about sausages! He tells himself stories! Already in Shanghai I was extremely worried by his statement to a referee in the middle of a match. He allowed himself to say: 'you have already cost me two Grand Slams'. He comes out with this thing which is intellectually dishonest. What's dramatic is that he thinks it. It's not so much the soup that he wants to sell us… And Friday, it's the pom-pom. He still told Jim Courier on court: 'I was unlucky in my first two Grand Slam finals, I hope this time I will be lucky'. But stop! Go get dressed with your luck, it's grotesque to talk about luck! And it's not because of bad luck that this guy missed the boat against Thiem when he was down two sets zero in the 2020 final at the US Open and it's not because of bad luck that he gets angry alone at the start of the fourth set against Alcaraz in the final of Roland‐Garros 2024.”
Published on Sunday January 26, 2025 at 08:44
