Alexander Zverev

[TennisUser]

Zawsze będę mógł się wykłócać, że 2019 miał słaby, bo grał na ślepo.

Chyba nosił soczewki XD

[DUN I LOVE]

Skoro już przy podsumowaniu jesteśmy, chyba największy tegoroczny zawód, mimo miejsca w top-7.

[Damian]

Zverev: 'For The Young Guys, [2020] Is Going To Be An Exciting Year'

Spoiler:

German reflects after semi-final loss to Thiem in London
Alexander Zverev finished the 2018 season with a bang, winning the biggest title of his career at the Nitto ATP Finals. That helped the German finish at year-end World No. 4.
Even though he was unable to maintain that momentum in 2019, Zverev managed to qualify for the season finale for the third consecutive year, and he showed some of his best tennis — including a straight-sets win against World No. 1 Rafael Nadal — to reach the semifinals in London. He closes out the campaign at World No. 7.
“To finish the year No. 7 in the world, for me, with all the things that happened to me and with all the things that were happening is actually quite incredible. I didn't think I would. In that point, you can see it in a very positive way,” Zverev said. “Of course, I was very disappointed, because I wanted to win more tournaments. I wanted to play better at the big tournaments.”
Zverev triumphed in Geneva this year for his 11th ATP Tour trophy, and finishes the season with a 44-25 record. It is the fourth straight year in which he has eclipsed the 40-win mark.
“After the US Open I started playing much, much better. I hope I can take that into next season, and we will see,” said Zverev, who made the semi-finals of the China Open and then the championship match of the Rolex Shanghai Masters following a fourth-round showing in Flushing Meadows.

Zverev entered his clash against Dominic Thiem on Saturday with plenty of confidence following a must-win match that he triumphed in on Friday against Daniil Medvedev. But he was unable to find the same level against the Austrian star, who advanced to his first final at this event.
“The match was, I thought, pretty even. Dominic obviously played very good from the baseline,” Zverev said. “But today I was playing with no returns, actually. I was returning really bad and didn't put a lot of pressure on his serve. And when I did, he was coming out with good serves, good points. Credit to him. I played a bad game in the second set, and that match was over a few games later.”
Zverev was one of four 23-and-under players to compete at The O2 this week. Two of those four (Zverev and Tsitsipas) made the semi-finals, and the German believes there will be more success for the sport’s rising stars in 2020.
“I think next year will bring a new Grand Slam champion. We'll see who that will be, because I think the young guys are playing incredible tennis,” Zverev said. “It can be Daniil, it can be Stefanos, it can be Dominic. I'm in the mix, as well, I hope. We'll see what next year brings. But I think for the young guys, it's going to be an exciting year.”

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[arti]

7. Alexander Zverev (GER) – Youngest (22) to finish in Top 10 for three straight seasons since Djokovic from 2007-09. Also the first German to finish in Top 10 for three consecutive years since Boris Becker from 1994-96.

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[Kamileki]

[Kamileki]

2019 w liczbach:

Ranking: 7
Bilans meczów: 44-25
Tytuły: 1 (Genewa)
Finały: 2 (ATP Masters-1000 Szanghaj, Acapulco)
Zarobki: $4,143,723

[Kamileki]

[Damian]

Tenis. Odnalazł szczęście w ramionach seksownej modelki. Alexander Zverev ma nową miłość

Spoiler:

Niemiecki tenisista pochodzenia rosyjskiego, Alexander Zverev, poznał supermodelkę, która zawróciła mu w głowie. Para poleciała na wakacje do Meksyku.

1 z 6 Oszałamiająca Brenda



Alexander Zverev jest po niezwykle trudnym sezonie, który prawdopodobnie zakończył się dla niego w najlepszy możliwy sposób. Stoi za tym nowa, oszałamiająca dziewczyna - Brenda Patea (na zdjęciu).

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Według kolorowych mediów, "Sascha" i Brenda są w związku. Tenisista z Niemiec w ostatnich miesiącach nie miał dobrej passy. Zverev najpierw był zmuszony rozwiązać kontrakt ze swoim agentem - Patricio Apeyem, a potem rozstał się ze swoją dziewczyną - Olyą.



3 z 6 Odnalazł szczęście



Patea pochodzi z Niemiec i jest supermodelką. Para wprawdzie oficjalnie nie potwierdziła doniesień tabloidów, ale... zakochani obecnie przebywają na wspólnych wakacjach.


4 z 6 Wybrali Meksyk



"Sascha" i jego wybranka polecieli na urlop do Meksyku. Brenda pochwaliła się zdjęciami z eskapady w mediach społecznościowych.

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Zapierające dech w piersiach widoki, lazurowe morze i piaszczyste plaże. Brenda zachwyciła się meksykańskim krajobrazem.


6 z 6 "Siódma" rakieta świata



22-letni Zverev zakończył sezon 2019 na 7. miejscu w rankingu ATP. Utalentowany tenisista liczył jednak na zdecydowanie lepsze wyniki

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[arti]

[arti]

Zverev's Momentum

Alexander Zverev readily admitted that his 2019 season was a mixed bag, but finished on a strong note with a Masters 1000 final in Shanghai (l. to Medvedev) and semi-final showing at the season-ending championships in London. Zverev also saved a championship point to prevail in Lyon (d. Jarry).
If he can carry his late season form into 2020, he’ll be a contender in any event he plays.

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/2020-season-preview

[Damian]

To Zverev-Led Germany, Bare Foot Bowling Rolls Naturally In Brisbane

Spoiler:

Germans face Australia on Friday evening in Brisbane
If the bare foot bowls game between Germany and Canada on Wednesday serves as any indication, the Germans, led by No. 7 Alexander Zverev, will be quick to start at the ATP Cup in Brisbane.

The Germans beat the Canadians, led by #NextGenATP stars Denis Shapovalov, No. 15 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, and Felix Auger-Aliassime, No. 21, in an abbreviated game of the traditional Aussie past-time at the Merthyr Bowls Club in Brisbane.

The past-time could be considered a mix of a few sports. First, the obvious comparison: bowling, because in bare foot bowls, you roll a ball underhand on a manicured green, similar to those found on golf courses. Horseshoes also comes to mind because the team that delivers the ball closest to the white ball, or the “jack”, wins. And as the club's greens director, Ian Warden, explained, bare foot bowls is also “just like tennis”.

“You play forehand and backhand in balls; you play forehand and backhand in tennis,” Warden said of rolling the ball with either the right or left hand.

But instead of using a racquet to hit a light fuzzy ball, in bare foot bowls, you use your hands to roll a weighted, hard ball that can weigh about two kilos and often meanders as it sees fit, as the Germans and Canadians learned.

“That's not good, boys!” Canada's Peter Polansky shouted after a errant roll.

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Germany won both games of three-on-three, partly thanks to reigning Roland Garros doubles champion Andreas Mies, who won the Grand Slam title with countryman Kevin Krawietz, both of whom are representing their country at the ATP Cup.

“It's the first time we've played this game. I have no experience with this, and it was a lot of fun. I was up and down, one shot was good, one was terrible, one was good,” Mies said. “But in the end, we got the win.”

Germany will look to Mies and Krawietz to play clutch on the court as well as doubles will be the final match of the three (also two singles) to be played in every team contest. The Germans open against Australia at 5:30 p.m. Friday.

Canada, however, said a little gamesmanship might have been involved on New Year's Day.

“Our goal was to not show our tough competitiveness at this time because we're going to play them in the round robin, so we don't want to give them everything we've got in the beginning,” Canadian captain Adriano Fuorivia said.

Fuorivia, Shapovalov's former coach, and the Canadians kick off the ATP Cup in Brisbane at 10 a.m. Friday against Greece. Canada will face Germany at 10 a.m. Tuesday 7 January, both teams' final group match.

“It's good to have these team events. We don't get a lot of these throughout the year,” Auger-Aliassime said. “There's a great chemistry with us together. A lot of good times, a lot of positive vibes, I think everyone is going to be pushing in the right direction this week, so hopefully we get good results out of that.”

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[Barty]

Tenis. Boris Becker o sytuacji Alexandra Zvereva. Utytułowany Niemiec postuluje zmianę trenera

Spoiler:

Boris Becker dostrzega problemy, jakie dotknęły Alexandra Zvereva. Legendarny niemiecki tenisista jest przekonany, że jego młodszy rodak już wkrótce powinien dokonać zmian w sztabie szkoleniowym.
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11 Stycznia 2020, 15:14

Alexander Zverev
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ATP Cup: ambitny Alex de Minaur nie zatrzymał Rafaela Nadala. Hiszpania finałowym rywalem Serbii
Pochodzący z Hamburga Alexander Zverev zakończył występy w premierowej edycji ATP Cup z bilansem 0-3. Zaczęło się od trzysetowego boju z Aleksem de Minaurem, ale potem było już tylko gorzej. Młody Niemiec zupełnie nie radził sobie w starciu ze Stefanosem Tsitsipasem i Denisem Shapovalovem. Podczas meczu z Grekiem pokłócił się ze swoim ojcem Aleksandrem seniorem (więcej tutaj).
O sytuacji Zvereva opowiedział Boris Becker, który był kapitanem niemieckiej drużyny i z bliska śledził wydarzenia w Australii. - Alex zachowuje się jak człowiek zamknięty w ciemnym pomieszczeniu, który szuka włącznika światła (...) Nogi chcą, ale głowa nie. To walka z samym sobą, a on ją przegrywa. Zmierza w złym kierunku - powiedział sześciokrotny mistrz wielkoszlemowy w rozmowie z "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".

Becker ma wielki szacunek do dokonań Aleksandra seniora jako trenera, ale obserwując relacje na linii ojciec-syn na korcie, nie ma wątpliwości, że Zverev powinien zmienić szkoleniowca. Dotychczas to papa Zverev był ośrodkiem decyzyjnym w sztabie swojego potomka, nawet gdy ten pracował z Ivanem Lendlem.

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Do zmiany trenera na pewno nie dojdzie w najbliższych dniach. Zverev udał się do Melbourne, gdzie weźmie udział w wielkoszlemowym Australian Open 2020. Becker uważa, że dobrym czasem na dokonanie roszad w sztabie będzie luty, zaraz po powrocie z Antypodów. Legendarny tenisista dodał, ze nie jest zainteresowany pracą ze Zverevem.

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[Damian]

Zverev Endures Week Of Prep Like No Other For Australian Open

Spoiler:

Seventh seed faces 2018 Roland Garros semi-finalist Cecchinato in opener
Alexander Zverev has had a week of preparation before a Grand Slam unlike any other in his career this week in Melbourne.

Two-a-days? The 22-year-old has been enduring three practices a day and logging five to seven hours on court ahead of the season's first Grand Slam, the Australian Open, which starts Monday.

The week before a Grand Slam is typically a lighter week of practice for players, especially those in the Top 10. But Zverev was disappointed with his ATP Cup showing for Germany in Brisbane – he went 0-3 against Aussie Alex de Minaur, Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Canadian Denis Shapovalov – and wanted to fix on the practice courts what troubled him.

“I need to get my tennis back because how I was playing at the ATP Cup was just not going to be good enough to do well at a Grand Slam. I know that, my team knows that, my coaching staff knows that. The hours are in now. Now it's just about getting the final preparations right,” Zverev said on Friday in Melbourne.

The seventh seed is looking to reach past the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time. Zverev has twice reached the Roland Garros quarter-finals (2018, 2019). His best showing in Melbourne came last year when he made the fourth round before falling to Milos Raonic of Canada.

“This was more like a training block for me really than a preparation for a Grand Slam. But it's also different: I've never been past a quarter-final at a Grand Slam. Maybe this will also be something new and something different and maybe it will work as well,” Zverev said.

Zverev said, in particular, he worked on his serve, which had troubled him in Brisbane and at times last year. His serve was working well in practice, he said, which typically bodes well for his matches.

“I'm also not a player that gets too nervous or too emotionally down when I play matches. When something doesn't work in practice, that's when it doesn't work in matches,” he said.

“For example, at ATP Cup, I was not able to serve in practice as well. It was just bad with the timing. It was just off. Normally when it gets better in practice, it also will automatically get better on the match court. Maybe not in the first match or the first set, but I think gradually it will improve as well on the match court.”

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Zverev isn't counting himself as a favourite to win the season's first major championship, but he's not counting himself out, either, as he expects the usual flurry of upsets Down Under during the first month of the season.

“Other players are playing better than me. So this is also a process. I'm happy to know that I can go out there and feel comfortable. Maybe go through a few matches, and then, normally what happens with me is the further I can go in the tournament, the better I start playing,” he said.

“I think a lot of young guys have a chance this year, maybe more than the last few years. It's going to be interesting to see. I think there will be some upsets during the week, I think some young guys maybe will lose earlier than we think they will. But I also think some young guys maybe will do better than we think they will.”

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And although the three-time ATP Masters 1000 titlist doesn't arrive in Melbourne with heaps of momentum, he's prepared to fight his way through the draw.

“I will still try my best. I will still work my butt off to win every single point that I play out there. If it works, great, if it doesn't, I will do the same and train again,” Zverev said.

As he knows, practice is great but it's not match play.

“The day when you're on court everything changes," he said, "and nobody really cares what you've done the weeks before.”

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[Del Fed]

“I want Federer, Nadal, Djokovic to know this sport is left in good hands” admits Alexander Zverev

Spoiler:

Alexander Zverev has admitted that he feels a responsibility to look after the sport he loves once the ‘Big 3’ of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic have stopped playing



Federer, Nadal and djokovic will most likely go down in history as the 3 greatest players ever to have played the game and it seems that no-one is more aware of their legacy than rising German star Alexander Zverev

Zverev had just lost a tough Shanghai final to Russian Daniil Medvedev when it was pointed out to him that he seemed to have an increased level of maturity in the past few weeks. Zverev replied, “Yeah, a little bit. Well, because for me, the difference now this year than the last few years was I was the only young guy kind of up there.

“Now I see the other young guys. I see maybe still difference in, you know, how we act on court, how we behave on court, compared to the older guys.

“So before I didn’t pay attention to it because I was kind of the only one and the rest of it was fine. Nobody really cared about it. Now I really do, because I love this sport of tennis in general, and I want it to be in good hands, and I want it to be, you know, when Roger retires, when Novak retires, when Rafa retires, I want them to know that tennis is in good hands, kind of.

“So I hope we, as young guys, we kind of understand that, we learn that, and, you know, then I think tennis will be just as interesting as it is now. And, you know, the Roger Federer fans or Rafa Nadal fans will fall in love with new players. I’m not saying it has to be me. I’m not saying it has to be anyone in particular. It may be a new superstar that we don’t even know about.

“But if we kind of learn the good things about those guys, I think this sport of tennis will be in very good hands.”

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[Del Fed]

“It’s absurd” Physical trainer to Alexander Zverev highlights tough tennis calendar for top pro’s

Spoiler:

Jez Green, physical conditioner for Alexander Zverev, says the top players are usually too tired to do much hard physical work during the Asia swing



Tennis must be the most physically demanding of all sports. The top players are on the road competing for up to 35 weeks of the year, playing several matches every week and having to switch between different surfaces, different climates and different time zones.

The off-season now is almost non-existent. Staging the Davis Cup Finals at the end of November means the players won’t be able to start their off-seasons until deep into December. By the first week of January most of them will be competing again. It’s absurd.

On top of it all, the players have trainers like me demanding physical work from them throughout the year. The training is continuous, particularly for the guys who tend to go deep in almost every tournament. To keep up with everyone else they need to train and practise at the highest level whenever they step on the court or go in the gym. If they go down a level their ranking will go down a level: it’s as simple as that.

Of course players like Alexander Zverev can’t work at the same pitch every week of the year. I split the year into blocks of between six to eight weeks. I have a theme for each block, which I change at the end of each one, so that the body doesn’t go stale as a result of always doing the same thing. Generally the intensity of the work will go down through the year.

I treat the period from December through to just before Indian Wells as a continuous off season. All the way through to late February the players do heavy endurance work, with plenty of heavy weights and a lot of hard track work. By the time we get to Indian Wells and Miami I’m starting to prepare for the clay-court season.

The last chance in the year to do a big block of physical work is post-Wimbledon. Most of the top guys will take a week or 10 days off after Wimbledon, after which they’ll have a couple of weeks in which they can put in some heavy work. Generally you’ll be looking to push quite hard all the way through to the US Open.

After the US Open, however, everything changes. I think a lot of the top players go through a bit of a let-down mentally at that stage, because there’s not another Grand Slam on the horizon until January. It’s a time of year when players are often physically very tired.

Keeping the body healthy and functioning properly then becomes the priority. The focus is much more on injury prevention until maybe November, when you can start looking at hard physical work again.

After the US Open I go into a two-month “maintenance” block. I do almost no endurance work at all in this time. I might do one “maintenance” session each week – a run or a weights session – but otherwise it’s all about injury prevention, movement and core and stability work. Generally speaking the physiotherapist is more important than the physical trainer at this stage of the season.

I also increase the recovery techniques by one a day from the US Open all the way through Asia. Normally you would have two a day – a massage and an ice bath – but I will often go for three by adding a pool session. You’re hoping that the player will get through the Asia swing unscathed and come alive again in Paris and, if they’ve made it, at the World Tour Finals.

On a couple of occasions in the past I’ve tried to push top players hard through the Asia swing and it just didn’t work. They didn’t derive any energy from the work we did. It felt like you were pushing someone who was really exhausted – and that could have a detrimental effect on them in the final month of the season.

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[Kamileki]

Zverev Endures Week Of Prep Like No Other For Australian Open

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Alexander Zverev looks to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals for the first time this fortnight.
Zverev Endures Week Of Prep Like No Other For Australian Open
Jan172020
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Seventh seed faces 2018 Roland Garros semi-finalist Cecchinato in opener

Alexander Zverev has had a week of preparation before a Grand Slam unlike any other in his career this week in Melbourne.

Two-a-days? The 22-year-old has been enduring three practices a day and logging five to seven hours on court ahead of the season's first Grand Slam, the Australian Open, which starts Monday.

The week before a Grand Slam is typically a lighter week of practice for players, especially those in the Top 10. But Zverev was disappointed with his ATP Cup showing for Germany in Brisbane – he went 0-3 against Aussie Alex de Minaur, Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Canadian Denis Shapovalov – and wanted to fix on the practice courts what troubled him.

“I need to get my tennis back because how I was playing at the ATP Cup was just not going to be good enough to do well at a Grand Slam. I know that, my team knows that, my coaching staff knows that. The hours are in now. Now it's just about getting the final preparations right,” Zverev said on Friday in Melbourne.

The seventh seed is looking to reach past the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time. Zverev has twice reached the Roland Garros quarter-finals (2018, 2019). His best showing in Melbourne came last year when he made the fourth round before falling to Milos Raonic of Canada.

“This was more like a training block for me really than a preparation for a Grand Slam. But it's also different: I've never been past a quarter-final at a Grand Slam. Maybe this will also be something new and something different and maybe it will work as well,” Zverev said.

Zverev said, in particular, he worked on his serve, which had troubled him in Brisbane and at times last year. His serve was working well in practice, he said, which typically bodes well for his matches.

“I'm also not a player that gets too nervous or too emotionally down when I play matches. When something doesn't work in practice, that's when it doesn't work in matches,” he said.

“For example, at ATP Cup, I was not able to serve in practice as well. It was just bad with the timing. It was just off. Normally when it gets better in practice, it also will automatically get better on the match court. Maybe not in the first match or the first set, but I think gradually it will improve as well on the match court.”

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Zverev isn't counting himself as a favourite to win the season's first major championship, but he's not counting himself out, either, as he expects the usual flurry of upsets Down Under during the first month of the season.

“Other players are playing better than me. So this is also a process. I'm happy to know that I can go out there and feel comfortable. Maybe go through a few matches, and then, normally what happens with me is the further I can go in the tournament, the better I start playing,” he said.

“I think a lot of young guys have a chance this year, maybe more than the last few years. It's going to be interesting to see. I think there will be some upsets during the week, I think some young guys maybe will lose earlier than we think they will. But I also think some young guys maybe will do better than we think they will.”

View AO Singles Draw

And although the three-time ATP Masters 1000 titlist doesn't arrive in Melbourne with heaps of momentum, he's prepared to fight his way through the draw.

“I will still try my best. I will still work my butt off to win every single point that I play out there. If it works, great, if it doesn't, I will do the same and train again,” Zverev said.

As he knows, practice is great but it's not match play.

“The day when you're on court everything changes," he said, "and nobody really cares what you've done the weeks before.”
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Zverev Nets First Win Of 2020, Then Makes Big Pledge

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Seventh seed Alexander Zverev celebrates winning a point against Marco Cecchinato on Tuesday night at the Australian Open.
Zverev Nets First Win Of 2020, Then Makes Big Pledge
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Rublev extends perfect start to the season

Alexander Zverev recorded his first match win of the 2020 season on Tuesday at the Australian Open and immediately made a pledge to donate “every single cent” of his prize money if he goes onto lift his first major trophy.

The German earned a confidence-boosting 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-3 victory over Italian Marco Cecchinato, who was looking for his first victory in three visits to the Australian Open, in two hours and 23 minutes.

During his on-court interview, Zverev told spectators on Margaret Court Arena, “I always make it hard for myself, but there was a lot of high level tennis. I really appreciate the fans staying out late. I will donate $10,000 for every match I win here and I know I’m not the favourite to win this event, but I’ll donate every single cent to the bushfire relief fund if I win the title.”

The World No. 7, who’d gone 0-3 for Team Germany at the inaugural ATP Cup two weeks ago, broke Cecchinato’s serve five times and hit 35 winners to set up a second-round clash against Belarus' Egor Gerasimov, who needed three hours and 34 minutes to defeat Casper Ruud of Norway 6-3, 7-6(6), 1-6, 4-6, 7-6(6).

The 22-year-old Zverev, who is through to the second round for the fourth straight year, recovered from 2-4 down in the first set and from a 3-5 deficit in the second set, finishing the tie-break with a forehand approach that Cecchinato could not scramble back successfully. Zverev lost his serve in the first game of the third set, but immediately bounced back and broke for a 5-3 lead.

“I didn't play well at the ATP Cup, everybody saw that,” said Zverev. “I was struggling a lot with my serve, I was struggling a lot with my groundstrokes. I think I was much more stable [today] than I was there. This is a positive for me. Obviously, there's a lot still to build.”

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Elsewhere, in-form Russian Andrey Rublev extended his perfect start to the season to 9-0 after the No. 17 seed knocked out World No. 115 and Australian wild card Christopher O'Connell 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, 7-6(5) in two hours and 15 minutes. He now faces Japan’s Yuichi Sugita, a 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 victor over qualifier Elliot Benchetrit of France.

Rublev came into the tournament on the back of winning two ATP Tour titles at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open (d. Moutet) and at the Adelaide International (d. Harris), the first player to win two titles in the opening two weeks of the season since Dominik Hrbaty in 2004.

Former World No. 7 David Goffin, the 2016 quarter-finalist, cruised past Jeremy Chardy 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 in one hour and 48 minutes and now plays another Frenchman in Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who overcame Cameron Norrie of Great Britain 7-5, 3-6, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in three hours and 42 minutes.

Nikoloz Basilashvili, the No. 26 seed, who has reached the third round for the past two years, didn’t have things all his own way in a 6-7(5), 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Soonwoo Kwon of South Korea. The Georgian now plays 2009 semi-finalist Fernando Verdasco, who was a 7-5, 6-2, 6-1 winner against Russian lucky loser Evgeny Donskoy.

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