Zverev suffers shocking loss against Huesler in Davis Cup Qualifiers
ATP
On Friday, Alexander Zverev defeated Stan Wawrinka, and it seemed that the German was back to his best tennis, but he lost in his second match at the 2023 Davis Cup Qualifiers.
After the match, the 25-year-old marked his performance as the best since his injury, and he wanted to continue in a similar style also against Marc-Andrea Huesler.
But Zverev couldn't find his rhythm, and eventually, he was outplayed by the Swiss player. The second day of the 2023 Davis Cup Qualifiers tie between Germany and Switzerland started with a doubles match.
Andreas Mies and Tim Puetz managed to come back against Dominic Stricker and Stan Wawrinka to win the match 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4 and give a match point to Germany.
As the Germans led 2-1, Zverev had a chance to use this match point, but he couldn't do so. In the first set, Huesler proved to be the better player on a number of occasions.
Thanks to a double fault from Zverev, he broke already his second service game and added one more break to comfortably win the first set of the match 6-2, which was a surprise to everyone at the Arena Trier in Trier, Germany.
The 2020 US Open finalist started well in the second set, leading 2-0 early on. However, he soon lost his lead, and the second set had to be decided in a tie-break. Huesler won the tie-break 7-4 to win the match 6-2, 7-6(4) in an hour and 40 minutes and level the score of the tie.
That means the tie has to be decided in the last fifth match. Stan Wawrinka will appear on the court for the third time in this tie, and after recording two losses so far, he will want to beat Daniel Altmaier, who was nominated instead of Oscar Otte, who played the first singles match as Germany's No. 2 player.
