Alexander Zverev has made it: He is one of the world’s elite of the best tennis players – and not just after winning the gold medal at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. What is the tennis high-flyer like in private and which woman does his heart belong to?
Alexander Zverev is clearly the German high-flyer in TennisWith a lot of ambition and talent, he beat the big names in tennis at an early age. His successes don’t seem to be coming to an end. But he has also had to suffer defeats. How did he actually manage to become so successful?
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How Alexander Zverev became a tennis superstar
Don’t dream your life, live your dream. This is how Alexander Zverev’s career can be summed up. The tennis star had the desire from an early age “to win a Grand Slam tournament one day,” as the NDR writes. He already had good prospects for this. Alexander Zverev, born in Hamburg in 1997, has tennis in his blood, so to speak. His father Alexander Zverev Senior and his mother Irina were tennis professionals themselves. Later they worked as trainers. His brother, who is ten years older, also Mischa Zverev plays tennis professionally.
Alexander Zverev and his brother Mischa Zverev inseparable even in tennis tournaments
The brothers’ paths are similar. Both were trained by their father and played for Uhlenhorster HC. But Sascha, as everyone calls him, went his own way. He quickly became first in the junior world rankings. In 2013 he finished the season successfully. And so it continued. In 2006, as a 17-year-old, he beat four established players in the semifinals of an ATP tournament. But it wasn’t until 2016 that his big moment came, when he won the 2016 ATP tournament in St. Petersburg and also reached the final in Montpellier with his brother.
Alexander Zverev: From high-flyer to German gold winner at the 2021 Olympics
Things continued to go well for him in the next few years. In 2018, he beat Roger Federer and won the ATP World Championship. In 2019, his streak of luck was over when he failed at Wimbledon. It was not until 2020 that he returned to his old strength, although he did not win the Australian Open. “I am now at the point in my career where I no longer want to play nice tournaments or nice matches, I want to win. Unfortunately, I did not do that here,” he said in an interview with “Eurosport”. His will to win prevailed a year later when he became the first German after Boris Becker to win gold at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. After that, his winning streak was over again. But at the US Open, Novak Djokovic beat him in the semifinals. After an injury at the French Open In 2022, he was unable to take part in the US Open in the same year. In 2023, he was back on the court at the French Open. Zverev was also unable to bring home another medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Alexander Zverev privately: Does he have a partner again after his separation from Brenda Patea?
“I didn’t play for myself for a second. I played for my family, for my parents and for my daughter,” he revealed after winning his medal at the Olympics. “Bild”Otherwise, he always kept his private life under wraps. He was together with the former GNTM candidate Brenda Patea. Before that, he was in a relationship with Olga Sharipova. But now the tennis star’s heart belongs to none other than Sophia Thomalla.
He outranks the tennis hottie on Instagram
When Alexander Zverev is not busy showing off his right backhand on the tennis court, he stays fit in the gym. His fitness program is paying off, as his topless photos show. He also likes to show them on vacation. He probably likes to travel to the sea the most, as numerous pictures on his Instagram-Account Often with him are his brother, his beloved father or Lövik, his poodle. He even likes to steal the show during training.
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