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Alexander Zverev is in the final of the US Open in New York after a furious comeback!
The 23-year-old German won against Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta after a 2-0 set at a disadvantage after 3:22 hours at the end with 3: 6, 2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 3. In the final on Sunday night there is a duel with Russian Daniil Medvedev or Dominic Thiem of Austria.
For the first time in his career, Zverev played a five-set match in which he had lost the first two sets, before he had always taken the short glass in six matches after 2-0.
Zverev first German Grand Slam winner since Becker?
At the same time, reaching the final at Flushing Meadows also means the first final of a Grand Slam tournament for the 1.98-meter sloths. Her best result to date in one of the four biggest tennis events she achieved earlier this year when she reached the Australian Open semi-finals.
Zverev is the first German professional tennis player in a Grand Slam final since Rainer Schüttler at the 2003 Australian Open, who was clearly beaten by Andre Agassi at the time. Boris Becker also won the last German Grand Slam title in Australia in 1996, and the now 52-year-old was also the last winner of the US Open in 1989.
It was compared to number 27 in the world. For a long time it was not well with Zverev, who ranked better in 20 positions: after losing two service games, he quickly fell 1: 5 in the first set, the next two victories were simply cosmetic results.
In the second set, Zverev even threatened the maximum penalty when the score was 0: 5, but in the middle of the third set the knot seemed to suddenly burst: Carreño Busta initially achieved a new break after the 3: 1 for Zverev, Zverev took that. Spanier but straight from the next service game again and brought the set in just 34 minutes.
Zverev makes a perfect mega comeback
Also in the fourth set, Zverev quickly came forward with a break, only to give up this lead again. In the end, Carreño Busta, who is now clearly plagued with back problems, did not have enough to resist to avoid a set equalization.
As a result, Zverev’s counterpart, who beat Denis Shapovalov in the quarter-finals and had previously benefited from the momentous defection and subsequent disqualification of world number one Novak Djokovic, took a break before the decisive fifth set.
But Zverev picked up where he had left off in the previous two sentences: He pulled Carreño Busta out of his first service game, but the German had his own serve completely under control, except for small wobbles at the beginning of the sentence.
After nearly three and a half hours, Zverev finally used his second match point and made his perfect mega comeback.
