Zverev recounts how Djokovic helped him get back on track: "I talked to him for hours in Shanghai".
Alexander Zverev will attempt to win his first Grand Slam title tomorrow, after failing to reach the final at the 2020 US Open and last year's French Open.
After struggling in the second half of the 2024 season, the world No.2 returned to his best at the very end of the year, winning the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000.
In a press conference after his semi-final win, the German spoke of the exchanges he had with Novak Djokovic, which helped him to get back on track: "After Roland Garros, I was disappointed with the way my season was going. I wasn't winning any more tournaments.
I still mention the US Open, because it was extremely disappointing for me, because I thought I had a good chance of going far, that I could reach the final.
And I just played badly. Very, very badly, in my opinion.
In Shanghai, I talked to Novak for hours. I just asked him how he coped with the difficult moments he had, for example in 2016 and 2017. And how he managed to come back.
He was always very open with me. We had long conversations and trained a lot together.
He told me about his experience, the difficult situations he's been in."
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