Alexander Zverev to miss US Open due to ankle injury

The news, which was to be expected, is officially confirmed. World number two Alexander Zverev will not be playing at the upcoming US Open. The 25-year-old German still hasn’t healed the serious ankle injury he suffered in the semi-final match of this year’s Roland Garros.

At the beginning of the tiebreak of the second set, he stepped on the ball wrongly and tore ligaments in his right ankle, with which he had to undergo surgery. The duel with Rafael Nadal on June 3 will still be the last we have seen him on court so far.

Last year’s US Open semi-finalist will in fact be absent from the American Grand Slam this time around. So, just like at Wimbledon, Flushing Meadows will have to do without the participation of one of the best tennis players of today, who still lacks a triumph at one of the “big four” tournaments in his collection.

The closest he came to it was in New York two years ago, when he faced Dominic Thiem in the final. The German player was leading 2: 0 in sets, but the Austrian managed to make a comeback, finishing with a winning shortened game in the deciding set.

Prior to the forced medical break, Zverev had participated in 27 Grand Slams in a row since 2015, when he was still an inexperienced teenager.

Stefan Kozlov made it into the main event of the 2022 US Open, which begins on August 29, thanks to Sascha’s outage. The Russian-born American tennis player, at 24 years old, is currently 110th on the ATP rankings.

Alexander Zverev will now try to treat his ankle so that he can play in the Davis Cup. The national team tournament is scheduled from 13 to 18 September. The German team will face the French, Australians and Belgians in their final group in Hamburg, Zverev’s hometown.

Source: US Open