Opening win at BMW Open: Crisis-shaken Zverev is “very good step”

Opening win at BMW Open
Crisis -shaken Zverev is “very good step”

04/14/2025, 8:34 p.m.

Finally, Alexander Zverev is anything but splendid. But Germany’s tennisass shows on a home clay court that he can still do it: Zverev does not burn anything against the Frenchman Alexandre Müller. There could now be a German-German duel.

Alexander Zverev clearly won his opening match at the ATP tournament in Munich. Alexandre Müller from France, which was set to number one, defeated 6: 4, 6: 1 at the end and meets Daniel Altmaier (Kempen) or Chun-Hsin Tseng (Taiwan) in the round of 16 in the round of 16. “I’m very happy about the game,” said Zverev with a wide smile in the Sky interview: “I want to play my best tennis again – and that was a very good step in the right direction.”

On the almost fully occupied new Center Court on the layout of the MTTC Iphitos, Zverev achieved a break in the first game against number 40 in the world rankings, after which it ran a little tough. To 3: 3 he collected the rebreak, but increased after 47 minutes until winning the first set. In the second round he looked much more confident and used his first match ball after 1:20 hours.

Zverev has won twice in Munich so far, in 2017 and 2018, since then, as in the previous year, it has not passed the quarter -finals. This time he hopes for a trend reversal after the last disappointing weeks after recently failing at the Masters in Monte Carlo in his opening match.

Defending champion Jan-Lennard Struff, who celebrated his first tournament victory last year with a win against Taylor Fritz (USA), denies his opening match on Tuesday. The opponent is Francisco Cerundolo from Argentina. The other three Germans also get on on Tuesday: Yannick Hanfmann meets Jakub Mensik from the Czech Republic and the talent Justin Engel, which is equipped with a wildcard, on Fabian Marozsan from Hungary.

After the short-term withdrawal from Gael Monfils from France, the young Berlin Diego Dedura-Palomero will also contest his first match on the tour. After his lost final, the 16-year-old moved into the main field in qualifying as a Lucky Loser and meets the Canadian Denis Shapovalov on number eight.