The 24-year-old Hamburger won on Sunday in the final sovereign with 6: 3, 6: 1 and celebrated the greatest success of his career. It is the fourth gold medal for Germany in Tokyo after the dressage riders (Team and Jessica of Bredow-Werndl in singles) and slalom canoeing Ricarda radio.
33 years after the triumph of the sports icon Steffi Graf there was a single gold for the DTB. ZVEREV grabbed the chance that after the semi-final success was approaching the Serbian Topstar Novak Djokovic.
At 5.17 local time, a piece of German tennis history had taken its course with the first ball change. The Center Court lay on the once again extremely hot Tokyo day in the shadow, Zverev caught a start as hoped. When Khachanov was struggling for the second time, German number one developed a breakball. He turned it with a butterflies and suggested early.
The German medal winners of Tokyo
Furthermore, the world ranking fifth played brave and powerful. And could not be removed from the calls of Olympic protests that lured at the beginning from the outside into the arena. The surcharge had repeatedly brought him to potential victories as a random weakness in recent years. But even on this most important day of his Japan stay, he helped him the surcharge as in the matches - but the tricky situations were rare in his own service.
The Challenge Klug set
At 5: 3 Zverev decided at the right moment for the challenge. The video book showed that Khachanov's ball was conceivably previously received next to the line. A symbolic volley of the counterparty also secured Zverev to the delusion of the German delegation, including DOSB President Alfons Hörmann, the first sentence.
"Silver you sure, now hold gold for Germany home!", The German Tennis-Legend Boris Becker had given the finalists in a EuroSport Greetings message. Becker wished Zverev something he himself did not make: Him was at the side of Michael Stich 1992 Olympia-Gold in Double succeeded.
On the knees: Alexander Zverev after the Olympic mail. AFP Via Getty Images
Emotionally, Zverev continued. When he got the line from the distress 1: 0 in the second sentence with a backhand, the 1.98 meter right-hander shouted out the tension. When the rapid break followed, ZVEREV showed the fist - even as if he wanted to reaffirm that he could no longer miss this opportunity. "I think now he enjoys it. If you do not enjoy tennis now, you never enjoy it," said Alexander Zverev's older brother and manager Mischa Zverev at Eurosport.
After 79 minutes Zverev is through
Unlike his madness victory against Djokovic, Zverev was the favorite this time. The 25-year-old Khachanov occupies world ranking location 25, so 20 ranks are worse than Zverev. Also to the 4: 0, the ever better and more fringed recovery Zverev took the premium to his counterparty. After 1:19 hours he turned his first matchball.
In the US Open End Game last year, Zverev had recently removed a clear lead and at the end only two points from the Grand Slam dream, the pressure against the Austrian Dominic Thiem did not stand. In this match, only two winning sentences, he left his opponent no longer a chance.
It is 21 years ago that Tommy Haas silver brought home as the last German in Men's Silver. Angelique Kerber had traveled with the silver medal from Rio de Janeiro five years ago. For Brazil Zverev had canceled for health reasons. Now he enjoyed the Olympic atmosphere - and crowned with gold!
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