2023-06-05 20:58:43
Alexander Zverev, ex-world No. 2, now 27th, continued his renaissance at Roland-Garros by qualifying for the quarter-finals at the expense of Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (29th), dominated 6-1 6-4 6-3. This is the first time since his return to the circuit at the start of 2023 that Zverev has won 4 matches in a row in a tournament, a Grand Slam moreover.
For a place in the last four, Zverev will face the unexpected Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry (49), scorer 7-6 (10/8) 6-0 6-1 of the Japanese left-hander Yoshihito Nishioka (33), physically impaired.
This 2023 edition resembles that of the rebirth for Zverev. Here is the 26-year-old German in the quarterfinals, having missed only one set on Parisian clay, a year following leaving the Central court leaning on crutches following seriously twisting his right ankle in the middle of the half. -final once morest Rafael Nadal. This injury had kept him out for the rest of the 2022 season.
Largely controlled part
As a regular in the evening session – this is his third straight match scheduled for the evening – the German has tamed the decidedly very windy conditions since the start of the Paris fortnight and his opponent in just over 2 and a quarter hours.
Apart from 2 setbacks, when he was down 4 games to 2 in the second set, then when Dimitrov came back from 3-0 to 3-3 in the third, Zverev largely had control of the game.
At 23, Etcheverry will play his first Grand Slam quarter-final. There had never been past the 2nd round until then.
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