Alexander Zverev will be hoping to win his second Grand Slam title at Wimbledon this year.
Zverev won his maiden major at Roland Garros earlier this month, where he beat Flavio Cobolli in the final.
After finally making his Grand Slam breakthrough in Paris, there are now questions over whether Zverev could win another major title.
Zverev has previously struggled at Wimbledon, and former US Open finalist Greg Rusedski has named six players he would pick to win the grass court major over the world number two this year.
Greg Rusedski does not think Alexander Zverev is one of the favourites at Wimbledon
Zverev has never been past the fourth round of Wimbledon before, which is by far his worst-performing Grand Slam tournament.
In his only grass tournament so far this year, Zverev was beaten by Taylor Fritz in the Stuttgart Open semi-finals.
When discussing Zverev on his ‘Off Court with Greg Rusedski‘ podcast, Rusedski backed both Frances Tiafoe and Francisco Cerundolo to come out of his section of the draw.
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Rusedski then named his five favourites for the title, with Jannik Sinner at the top, which did not include the world number two.
“I don’t know about winning the title, but I’d say he’s going to play with freedom,” Rusedski said about Zverev. “I’d say Tiafoe in that section as the 17th seed, with Cerundolo who’s playing so well, are the favourites to come through that.
“With Zverev as you say, if he goes after it and doesn’t play too deep in the court, gets more aggressive, the volleys have improved, the movement at the net is so much better. But sometimes you win your first major there’s that ‘Ahh I won my first major, it’s been so long, I’ve worked so hard for this’, and I saw him and congratulated him at Aorangi Park this week when they were there practicing and he seems in good spirits, great mood and don’t ever discount him.
“But I don’t think he’s one of those guys I put in the top five to win the title and sometimes when you’re the underdog that is a good thing, because you can play with that sort of freedom
“…I’m still thinking that if I was going to look at how to seed this on players that I think are favourite to win, I’d probably go Sinner one, [Novak] Djokovic two, then after that I’d probably go into [Ben] Shelton, [Taylor] Fritz, Tiafoe as the five best form players coming into the grass season.”
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Alexander Zverev’s potential run to the Wimbledon title
Zverev will hope to prove Rusedski wrong at Wimbledon this year, where he will play young Belgian Alexander Blockx in the first round.
This will be the third time that they have played in recent months, with Zverev beating Blockx twice on clay in Madrid and Rome.
The first seeded player Zverev can face at Wimbledon this year is Roland Garros semi-finalist Matteo Arnaldi, with Queen’s champion Cerundolo a potential fourth round opponent.
Zverev has lost his last seven matches against Fritz, and that is who the German would play if he were to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time.
The big positive for Zverev is that he can only gain ranking points at Wimbledon after losing in the first round last year.
Zverev will play his first round match at Wimbledon against Blockx on Tuesday, June 30.
