PARIS: German second seed Alexander Zverev saved a match point and survived a second successive French Open scare on Friday (Saturday in Manila), coming back to defeat Bosnia’s Damir Dzumhur in five sets to reach the fourth round for the first time. World number 29 Dzumhur also served for the match in the fourth set, but Zverev clung on and battled to a 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 victory. He had to save a match point in the 10th game of the decider before breaking and holding to make the last 16 for the first time where he will face either French 15th seed Lucas Pouille or Russia’s Karen Khachanov. “It was an amazing, high level match,” said Zverev. But he has never reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal, although the longer best-of-five format has worked twice in his favour now at Roland Garros.

Source: Manila Times June 02, 2018 15:45 UTC