Djokovic Zverev Australian Open Semifinal

Zverev takes care of and awaits the questions of journalists at the press conference. In the audience he raises a hand and everyone smiles: “Alexander, we know that you love to observe the universe and planetary systems. Can you tell us what attracts you about space exploration? “. And Sascha is at the game: “Try to understand the unknown. We believe we know something, but in reality we know very little. ” In the room there are two intruders. The first is the interlocutor of Zverev: other than a journalist, he is that Novak Djokovic prankster. The second is an elephant on which it is impossible to glissce: “So the solution to win a slam lies in space?”. And the German: “He resides in letting me win it”. They smile and challenge each other with their eyes. They learned to function as a taboo of the other: Zverev paraded a gold medal from his neck and a pupil turned into a teacher into a couple of occasions, Djokovic has set it systematically when the challenge was prolonged on the Five sets. Both started towards Australia with an extralarge suitcase, ready to make room for the Slam that for Sascha and Nole would mean history. Even if for opposite reasons.

Fixed thinking

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If we used a meter to analyze how many and what the most pronounced words are by the duelists of the Australian semifinal, “Slam” would probably take care of the first, second and third place for both. Djokovic in Melbourne is looking for his twenty -fifth triumph, to impose herself once more as the most winning man at the major level in the history of tennis and also overcome Margaret Court that closed to 24. It could also make round figure at the level of singular ATP titles : he had signed up for Brisbane to conquer the penny, but the mission failed surprise against Opelka. And now, after the sparkling victory against Alcaraz in the quarterfinals (recognized by himself as one of his best performances ever in Melbourne) dreams of grasping two pigeons with a bean: “With Zverev we have an agreement: as long as I play, he must leave me Always win in the Slam ”joked after the success against Alcaraz. The German had conquered the pass for the semifinal four hours before and waited to know his opponent, with the dream of raising his first major in his career: “Who would I prefer between Carlos and Novak? I have a fixed goal, win a slam. And I’m pursuing it by giving the best. I am prepared for a very hard battle, I have the level necessary to beat both ”. But certainly, when he discovered that his opponent would be the Serbian, he will not have blurred a smile.

CURSE

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Yes, because when they can meet Zverev in a Slam it ends one -way. And the German is always bad for us, as in the last cross at the US Open 2021. Fllushing Meadows, semifinals: Djokovic, even more than in this 2025, is a man on a mission. Desperately try to complete the Grand Slam after triumphed in Melbourne, Paris and Wimbledon. He only lacks the American cement and against Zverev he has an outstanding account, considering that a month before the German blown him the opportunity to transform the Grand Slam into Golden Slam, eliminating him from the Tokyo Olympics. The Serbian, reluctantly subjected to the golden thirst, still focuses on the last major of the year to make four out of four. A company that, in the Open era, succeeded only in Rod Laver. Rental takes five sets but has the better of Zverev: the dream of poker in the majors remains alive but goes out in the final against Medvedev. Sascha, on the other hand, continues to see the monsters when the Slam challenges scottra: the year before he had succeeded in the company to lose against Thiem in the final despite two sets of advantage. And against Nole in Major ended up in a funnel also in the past: two other games with the Serbian, two other defeats. One always in 2021, in the quarter -finals of Melbourne: he moved to the first tie break, not to the decisive one in the fourth set. And check-out from Australia after a three and a half hours challenge. The other bitterness is dated 2019, quarter of the Roland Garros: 7-5 6-2 6-2 for the Serbian, a sharp score like a field crossing. The first chapter of Zverev’s Slam curse.

Rome and London, the joys of Sascha

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In the novel of the crossings between Sascha and Nole, however, the zero appears twice. And not only fills the Slam boxes won by the German, but also gets on the finals won by Serbian against Sascha. Because Alexander will also risk becoming the strongest tennis player ever to have never raised a Slam, but against rent some satisfaction has taken it off. Especially on two stages (in addition to the Tokyo Olympic semifinal which opened his way to a historic gold medal): Rome and London. To the international, one of his home gardens, Zverev makes friends with the first Masters 1000 of the career: 2017, twenty years of age recently, Strapazza Djokovic 6-4 6-3 at the last act in less than an hour and a half. And he writes many first times: he became the first born in the nineties to triumph in a 1000 and enters the top ten of the ranking. Someone, in that spring of 2017, hypothesized a handover. The story told us that Djokovic proved stronger than every wrinkle. But he sold another bay leaf to Zverev the following year, in 2018. The appointment is royal, the scepter takes the German: Finals Novembrine of London, Sascha surpasses Federer in the semifinal and rent in the last act with a dry 6- 4 6-3. Same score and the same time of the game of Rome. The Serbian was back from 35 successes in the last 37 games.

The best dress

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Melbourne 2025 told us that Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev both have a Slam notebook with the semifinal circled in red. The contradictions of tennis, which, moreover, is the sport of the Devil, see them ready for an uncertain outcome challenge despite such different numbers: 24 Slam to 0 for rent which, however, is the number 7 of the ranking while Zverev has been up to months to the Number 2 Sascha will try to leverage the service and explosiveness of his ten years less. In the first round against Pouille dropped 18 ace, in the round of 16 against Humbert went up to 19. They could also be comfortable now.