Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic are in fantastic terms and the German was sincerely shocked after Novak defaulted at the US Open. The world no.1 was extremely unlucky to hit a line judge at the throat. Fortunately, the line judge was fine after the episode, but Djokovic had to be disqualified.
Sascha Zverev’s reaction
This was “good news” for Sascha in terms of his opportunity to finally win his maiden slam since also Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are missing in action in New York. However, besides the obvious comment that there will be a “new slam champion”, Sascha was shocked for Novak’s accident to comment:
“I mean, look, it’s unfortunate. He hit a ball, he hit a tennis ball. It’s very unfortunate that, you know, he hit the line judge, and especially where it hit her. Yeah, there is a rule in place for it. I think the supervisors and all of them are just doing their job. But, yeah, very unlucky for Novak.
I think he’s going to be a little bit upset about it, but, he if he would have hit it anywhere else, if it would have landed anywhere else, we are talking about a few inches, he would have been fine. So, yeah, very unlucky.
The decision was made I think by the supervisors, and as I said, they are just doing their job. There is nothing much else I can say to that. I’m a little bit in shock right now, to be honest.”
Zverev at the U.S. Open, ranking, and results in 2020
Now ranked no.7, Zverev has a 10-6 win-loss record in 2020. Zverev is at the U.S. Open where he defeated Kevin Anderson 7-62 5-7 6-3 7-5, Brandon Nakashima 7-5 6-78 6-3 6-1, Adrian Mannarino 6-74 6-4 6-2 6-2 and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-2 6-2 6-1.
The German won 11 titles in his career: 3 on hard courts, 5 on clay courts and 3 on indoor courts. (See the list of his titles)
Novak Djokovic in 2020
Now ranked no.1, Djokovic played his last match on the 6th of September when he lost to Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-5 def. in the 4th round of the U.S. Open.
This year the Serbian has a 26-1 win-loss record. Novak has won 3 titles in 2020 at the Australian Open, in Dubai and in New York.
Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic played each other 5 times. The head to head is 3-2 for Djokovic. The last time that they played, Alexander Zverev won 6-4 6-3 in the final in London (Nitto ATP Finals) in November 2018.
