By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday November 3, 2024
Anyone who watched Alexander Zverev muscle his well past Ugo Humbert in Sunday’s Paris Masters ultimate is aware of that the German is coming into his personal on the ATP Tour.
However Sunday’s title – his seventh on the Masters stage and twenty third general – is just not the endgame for the 27-year outdated.
Zverev, who has hit the observe courts after his final two victories in Paris, has his sights on greater targets.
“I am extraordinarily glad. I am joyful about it,” he mentioned of his 6-2, 6-2 thrashing of Humbert in Bercy on Sunday. “However as I mentioned to start with of the week, for me I wish to enhance some issues for me to attain my actually massive targets.
“I am pleased with the ultimate. I am pleased with the match. After all I am sitting right here with the trophy from a Masters 1000 occasion, however there are nonetheless some issues I wish to enhance, and this can be a course of of some months, and I am bettering for subsequent yr already hopefully.”
Zverev, who took over the ATP’s match win complete on Sunday with 66.
He’ll rise to No.2 within the ATP rankings this week, a pleasant accomplishment however not the quantity he needs to see subsequent to his title.
“I feel now when all people is taking part in and all people is taking part in at full power and all people is wholesome, you need to win Grand Slams to grow to be World No. 1,” he mentioned. “I am World No. 2 now, however I am 3,000 factors away from Jannik, kind of, possibly extra even.
2024 ATP Tour win leaders: @AlexZverev 66
Jannik Sinner, 65
Carlos Alcaraz, 52The brand new World No.2 is racking up wins in 2024 🙌 pic.twitter.com/IvVqCTnT8O
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) November 3, 2024
“For me proper now it is about bettering my sport. And the outcomes, I’ll let the outcomes come to me. I can not pressure the outcomes. I did not come right here this week eager about, ‘Oh, I for positive wish to win this match. No, I wish to enhance, I wish to get higher, and I wish to enhance my sport. That is what I am doing, and that is what I am attempting to do day-after-day.”