Alexander Zverev: I’ve only been healthy at two events in 2019

ByBen Snowball

Updated 18/04/2019 at 10:57 GMT

Alexander Zverev says he has only been healthy at two events in 2019 as he bids to turn around his season at the Monte Carlo Masters.

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The German world number three has struggled with injury and illness, falling before the quarter-finals in four of his five events since the turn of the year.

"This year I played only two events healthily: Australian Open and Acapulco," Zverev told reporters in Monte-Carlo.

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"In Indian Wells, I was doing bad and in Miami, I had healed but I had not trained a lot and I had not recovered well. I could not play well.

"People doubted of me in the past too. The past year they were asking me the same questions: ‘Why did you start the season so bad?’"

Despite winning three Masters titles and the ATP World Tour Finals, Zverev has yet to make an impression at a Grand Slam.

He has only progressed beyond the fourth round at a blue ribbon event once in 15 attempts – and even that was a tame straight sets defeat in the French Open quarter-finals.

Angry Zverev obliterates racket during defeat to Raonic

ZVEREV'S DISMAL 2019

Tournament	Stage	Who beat him?
Australian Open	Fourth round	Milos Raonic
Mexican Open	Final	Nick Kyrgios
Indian Wells	Third round	Jan-Lennard Struff
Miami Open	Second round	David Ferrer
Grand Prix Hassan II	Second round	Jaume Munar

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