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Alexander Zverev is a name many of you probably won't have heard of. He's a junior born in 1997, with a Junior ranking outside the top 100 in the world. But at the same time, he just picked up his 6th ATP point in a futures tournament in the US. He beat Benjamin Balleret in the R16 in Qatar, a player ranked in the top 500. As far as I know only a couple of 96's and 95's are ranked higher than him at this point. I think he's a player we should start to keep an eye on. He's currently ranked in the 1100's, but may be able to crack the top 1000 by the end of the year.
 
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Re: Alexander Zverev



Yeah, that's pretty impressive for his age. He just won another Futures match, and could face Balleret again, if Balleret wins his match.
 
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Re: Alexander Zverev

Beats Balleret again, and is into his second futures quarter-final against the 8th seed. He should break into the top 1000 after these points are added on.
To be fair he did not beat him, Balleret retired, he did get past him.

Could be tough, Bangoura looks to be a decent player.
 
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Sasha Zverev had a little bit hyping in France when he accompanied his brother Mischa in Metz when Mischa reached the semifinals there, and people who were there were very impressed by his training.

He's one of the best European players of his generation, semifinalist of Petits As 2011 (lost to Wiersholm) and of the "Orange Bowl 14" 2011 (lost to Kozlov).

Yes it's good he got few points in futures recently, no player of his age got more points in futures than him (the Australian Jasika is the nearest).

And Balleret is very experienced and potentially is worth better than his current ranking.
 
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Impressive Result. Does anyone know what his playing style is?
 
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Re: Alexander Zverev

Huge win against another Junior player. Zverev is really having a great tournament. There's no more futures in the states after this one, so he's hopefully going to play Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl. As much as I'm against Juniors staying in the junior tour too long, I think he's young enough still that these tournaments are important to him. Hopefully he can keep doing well in Futures next year as a 16 year old, and get a decent junior ranking too.
 
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Lost in 3 unfortunately, 4-6 6-3 4-6. Nice week anyway, good to see him becoming more consistent in junior tournies. Back at it right away, playing a 10k future in Sweden against WC Jesper Brunstrom in the first round. GL.
 
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Seems like strange tournament scheduling. He's goign from playing 3 tournaments in Southern Europe to playing a men's event in northern europe, and then the following week he'll be playing a junior event in Southern Europe again. In my opinion he should either play the G1 in Italy, or take a week for rest, regardless of whether he'll pick up pro points or not.
 
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