- German defeated No 6 seed in four sets at Roland Garros
- Zverez, the world No 3, closing in on No 1-ranked Djokovic
Throughout the past 10 days, as the French Open increasingly took shape, all of the attention in the men’s draw has rested on a select few players.
Between the phenomenon of Carlos Alcaraz’s teenage breakthrough, the attempts of Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal to tread deeper into tennis’ history book and even the opportunity presented to Stefanos Tsitsipas in the vacant bottom half, few have had much to say about Alexander Zverev.