German Mischa Zverev, Alexander’s older brother, was born in Moscow in 1987. In his career he was in the top 25 in the world in 2017, when he reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and the round of 16 of the US Open.
Only one trophy on display: the one won in 2018 on the turf of Eastbourne, England, won in the final against the Slovakian Lukas Lacko by the score of 6-4 6-4. Now out of the top 250 of the world players, Mischa mainly devotes himself to games on smaller circuits.
The last tournament played by the 33-year-old German was the Challenger in Oeiras, Portugal, where he came out in the second round against Tiago Cacao in three sets. German commented on ATP bubble system “We can’t pick a lot of tournaments right now,” Mischa said, as posted on Break’s Punto site, “I don’t mind having to play Futures and Challengers, on the ATP circuit now there are only bubbles and I don’t like it at all.
I’m not looking to party or anything, I just want to be able to go for a run down the street or stretch, without having to worry about the rules. I want to live a normal life that allows me to compete.
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Mischa Zverev at odds with the ATP bubble system.
The eldest Zverev brothers nevertheless took part in the qualifiers for the Masters 1000 of the Miami Open, overtaking Danilo Petrovic and Matteo Viola before losing in the first game of the main draw to James Duckworth in the third set.
Mischa reached two other finals on the ATP circuit in addition to the one he won at Eastbourne: in Metz in 2010 and in Geneva in 2017, beaten respectively by Gilles Simon and Stan Wawrinka.
In his career he has only played once on the Major Tour against his brother Alexander: this happened three years ago in Washington, where he was beaten 6-3. 7-5.
Sascha, as Alexander is nicknamed, recently passed Roger Federer in 6th place in the ATP rankings. The German player immediately lost in Miami, stopped by Emil Ruusuvuori.
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