Defending champion out
Coming up LIVE: Alexander Zverev vs. Lorenzo Musetti
Defending champion Alexander Zverev has been eliminated from the 2024 Olympic Games tennis tournament!
The winner of the 2021 Summer Games in Tokyo was beaten 5:7 and 5:7 by Italian Lorenzo Musetti in the quarter-finals on Thursday. He thus missed his own goal of becoming Olympic champion for the second time.
Around seven hours less recovery time
Incidentally, Zverev went into the match with around seven hours less recovery time than Musetti. While the Italian had already completed his day's work at 2.30 pm on Wednesday with a win against Taylor Fritz, the German was only able to celebrate his entry into today's quarter-finals against Alexei Popyrin at 9.30 pm.
Zverev protested against the scheduling of the duel with Musetti for this early afternoon, but the organizers did not relent...
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