Alexander Zverev reflects on his Gentlemen's Final loss — Press Conference — Wimbledon 2026

[0:01] we'll do a switch over if you're coming in please come in and sit down quietly if you're leaving [0:09] please leave as quickly as you can welcome to the press conference for alexander zverev [0:16] please raise your hand if you would like to ask a question sasha i know it's not the result you [0:22] were looking for but can you take some consolation in like the level that you you were playing all [0:27] tournament yeah um i think overall compared to where i was last year um it's obviously a very [0:34] different championship for me and um yeah of course i would have loved to to lift the trophy but [0:43] um he was better than me today and he deserves to win [0:57] no i i i overextended my knee again uh similar to two to two years ago um and then i was struggling [1:05] to push off on the serve a little bit so my serve speed went down but everything else was fine i [1:11] was moving fine from the baseline and playing from baseline fine but from on the serve i was struggling [1:15] a bit more than you matt uh well done today uh i'm sort of curious like you're playing so well in that [1:24] first set through the second set really for most of the day did were you having the sensation that [1:29] you were kind of in control of the match as good as he is and as hard as that is to feel against a [1:34] player of his caliber but that you if you were if you kept up the level you were keeping up [1:42] that this could be a really good day for you yeah i mean for sure um well i don't know if i was [1:48] going to control but i felt like we were playing on a very very similar level which was extremely [1:52] high i think both of us were playing extremely high level um the first two sets um i i i missed [2:01] an unfortunate forehand to to start the the second set tie break and that kind of changed the momentum [2:06] a little bit but overall i thought that the level was very good and i think this the the fall didn't [2:13] help me in the third set and the third set my level dropped a little bit but then i picked it up [2:18] in the fourth again and i got i just got broken uh in a in a little bit unlucky way so um that was the match [2:28] but overall i thought it was it was quite high level uh throughout the match from both of us [2:33] charlie sasha felt like you're hitting your forehand today and throughout the tournament as well as [2:39] you know many people have seen it just wondered like what you think has sort of unlocked that and [2:43] whether a part of you thinks uh if only i'd done that a bit sooner i think if you you can always [2:51] manage to hit your phone as hard as you can it's always a good thing but um i think it's it's definitely [2:57] something that i've worked on and i've been very outspoken about it this year um when i have the [3:02] opportunity i hit it whether i make it or miss it you know that depends on the day but i i definitely [3:08] i definitely go for it that's that's my goal that's my aim uh for this year that's my aim for [3:14] hopefully the rest of my career um and again i feel like with every month it's it's starting to work [3:20] better and better um and we'll see we'll see where i'll be at in the next couple of months it's kind of the [3:27] same question how much are you satisfied about this let's say little transaction to become a more [3:33] offensive player because i really enjoyed for example from my point of view the performance you [3:38] you did today yeah i want to understand how much you're satisfied that because the other day you [3:43] said that it was kind of difficult to you to get used to do that in a previous press conference during [3:48] last week i thought i think i've said it in the beginning of the year and i've stuck to it um that's the [3:56] tennis i want to play that's the the game style i want to play um there were matches in the beginning [4:03] of the year we're struggling a bit more with this style but i was consistently doing it and you know [4:10] the more i do it the better i'll become hopefully you know and again i won a grand slam for for the [4:15] first time in my career in paris i made it to the finals year for the first time in my career [4:21] so something of course something has to be working um is it perfect yet no but i think we're going [4:29] towards the right direction with it hi sasha congrats for the tournament you've been very very good [4:36] i'm sorry for the loss um you said on on the court for the first time you thought you could win this [4:43] tournament what do you think you need to do more to actually win the same thing continue doing the [4:48] same thing continue working on the things that i've been working on from the beginning of the year [4:53] continue this path and i think um yeah just continue doing the same thing there's been so much talk [5:01] the last couple of years about the sinner alcaraz rivalry but after these last two grand slams do [5:07] you feel like even when alcaraz comes back that you can keep challenging these two and maybe make it a [5:12] big three in tennis i hope so um that's what i'm here to do um again i think this year as i said has [5:22] been in progress i think i've been pushing those guys um i haven't beaten them this year but i've pushed [5:28] them to to limits i would say um you know alcaraz in australia janik maybe here even though it was four [5:34] sets i think it was very close four sets um which could have gone five as well but yeah i think that's [5:42] the goal and that's what i'm working on my game for um you know i've there was always like this [5:49] conversation who will be the third guy and the search of the third guy i've kind of the last couple of [5:56] years i've always been the third guy but i was just far away from those two but i've always been [6:02] number three in a way um so if i if i get closer to them if i can be in a mix of of course competing [6:09] and winning the big tournaments with them alongside them that would be great last english question [6:18] the matchup with janik historically especially recently hasn't really been as close maybe gone [6:24] your way but today with the new style and also now with this level today do you feel like you've [6:31] closed the gap and bridged the gap and do you feel more confident going into matches with janik moving [6:36] forward look i think yeah i think he's still the best player in the world i i do believe that i think [6:44] he is um i do believe there's only two maybe three guys probably three guys with novak you have to give [6:52] novak uh that who can challenge him um and all of us have to be working for that goal and i'll continue [7:01] working for our goal and i think i've i've challenged them today not enough obviously because i still [7:08] sit here as a loser as the loser of the match but um i will continue doing that and you know the big [7:15] tournaments are still around the corner thank you very much