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Zverev: Why I'll Quit


Empowered by successfully defending his Washington, DC title on Sunday, Alexander Zverev believes his best tennis is ahead.

The 21-year-old Zverev has already won nine career titles as he launches defense of his Rogers Cup championship this week.

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Zverev is looking forward to writing more championship chapters to his success story, but already knows when it will be time to close the book on his career.

"The moment I stop having fun on the court is the moment I'll stop playing," Zverev told the media in Toronto ahead of his Rogers Cup opener against American qualifier Bradley Klahn. "I'm not going to just take this as a job. I'm always going to take it as something I enjoy doing.

"And the moment I won't have fun on the practice court, the moment I won't have fun with the process of getting better and the process of trying to improve, I'm not going to do it."

Though the second-seeded German has been relegated to Grandstand court to launch his title defense, Zverev is a prime-time player in opponents' eyes. 




Zverev, who owns an ATP-best 41-11 record this season, said weighty expectations are the biggest difference between this year and his breakout 2017 season when he beat Novak Djokovic in the Rome final and Roger Federer in the Rogers Cup final.

"I feel like last year everything was just the beginning and everything was like, you know, was not expected," Zverev told the media in Toronto. "This year, everybody is expecting a little bit more from you, everybody is looking out for you more, and in that way it's different.

"But in any other way, you still try to go out there and play tennis and try to be better than the guy on the opposite side of the net. That will not change in the next 15 years for me."

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