By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday November 3, 2024
Anybody who watched Alexander Zverev muscle his way past Ugo Humbert in Sunday’s Paris Masters final knows that the German is coming into his own on the ATP Tour.
But Sunday’s title – his seventh at the Masters level and 23rd overall – is not the endgame for the 27-year old.
Zverev, who has hit the practice courts after his last two victories in Paris, has his sights on bigger goals.
“I’m extremely satisfied. I’m happy about it,” he said of his 6-2, 6-2 thrashing of Humbert in Bercy on Sunday. “But as I said in the beginning of the week, for me I want to improve some things for me to achieve my really big goals.
“I’m happy with the final. I’m happy with the tournament. Of course I’m sitting here with the trophy from a Masters 1000 event, but there are still some things I want to improve, and this is a process of a few months, and I’m improving for next year already hopefully.”
Zverev, who took over the ATP’s match win total on Sunday with 66.
He will rise to No.2 in the ATP rankings this week, a nice accomplishment but not the number he wants to see next to his name.
“I think now when everybody is playing and everybody is playing at full strength and everybody is healthy, you have to win Grand Slams to become World No. 1,” he said. “I’m World No. 2 now, but I’m 3,000 points away from Jannik, more or less, maybe more even.
2024 ATP Tour win leaders: @AlexZverev 66
Jannik Sinner, 65
Carlos Alcaraz, 52The new World No.2 is racking up wins in 2024 🙌 pic.twitter.com/IvVqCTnT8O
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) November 3, 2024
“For me right now it’s about improving my game. And the results, I will let the results come to me. I cannot force the results. I didn’t come here this week thinking about, ‘Oh, I for sure want to win this tournament. No, I want to improve, I want to get better, and I want to improve my game. That’s what I’m doing, and that’s what I’m trying to do every day.”
