Article by Luminița Paul – published Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 14:45 / Updated Tuesday, October 7, 2025:59
The world number 3, Alexander Zverev (28 years old), eliminated in the third round in the 1000 Masters from Shanghai, is struggling with physical problems, but also with a massive lack of trust in a season that at the beginning with the Australian Open.
A single title so far in 2025, on the munich slag in April, and many problems for Alexander Zverevwhich preserves the third position in the world ranking when the season is on the last straight line.
Most recently, the German has left the Masters 1000 tournament from Shanghai in the third round, again defeated by the French Arthur Rinderknechthe one who had eliminated him in the inaugural round at Wimbledon, and his own doubts.
Upon arrival at Shanghai, Sascha invoked the wear imposed by a loaded season, in which he came to dispute 69 matches. Carlos Alcaraz has 74and Jannik Sinner 49even though he stayed on the edge for three months following the suspension in the case of doping with Clostebol.
Alexander Zverev: “I had a terrible year so far”
“Let's see if I will be completely healthy this year. It's a torment,” Zverev said, who is also struggling with back problems. The German also had an injury in the match in round 2 in Shanghai, in front of the French coming from qualifications Valentin Royer: he got a problem on his thumb. “Nothing unusual,” Zverev said. “I landed strange after a service and then I could barely go.”
Record Breaking Season 💪
Arthur Rinderknech Stuns Zverev 4-6 6-3 6-2 to Earn His 23rd Win of the Season, Making It His Most Successful Season to Date #Roolexshanghaimasters pic.twitter.com/grt6zfh8hw
– Tennis TV (@tennistv) October 6, 2025
After the rapid elimination in the tournament where he disputed the final in 2019, he said that the medical troubles “They just don't stop. It was a very harsh year from a physical point of view. The last time I played painless was at the Australian Open”.
In the following months, it remained at a decent level of results, with the title from Munich, “quarters” in Rome and Roland Garros, on the slag, then final at Stuttgart and semifinals at Halle, on the grass. In the North American hard piece of hard, he played the semifinals in Toronto and Cincinnati, but after the US Open, everything was breaking up for the triple Grand Slam finalist.
“I simply do not trust me, in my strokes“, Sascha, quoted by Eurosport, admitted.”I had a terrible year so far, I play a terrible tennis“, He added.
Even with these results located quite far from the level of constant that it has frequently reached in recent years, the position of the German qualification at ATP Finals does not seem to endanger. Occupies the fourth place in Race to Torino with 4,230 points after it has been overcome by Novak Djokovic (4.280). At the moment, on the 8th step, the last to assure the participation, it is Lorenzo Musetti3,435 points.
Zverev is about to take part in the controversial demonstrative tournament Six Slam in Saudi Arabia, then to the 1000 Masters in Paris and, most likely, to the Champions Tournament to save a mediocre season, according to its standards.
