Alexander Zverev gave a pretty detailed and interesting answer when asked about the balls issue as the German claims the manufacturers have been producing “a lot worse and slower” balls since the pandemic because they wanted to cut down on their costs.
For the past two years, there has been a lot of talk about the constantl ball changes across the ATP and WTA Tours. And some of the loudest critics have been some of the best players in the game, most notably Daniil Medvedev – who has complained numerous times about the same thing.
At the start of this week’s ATP Finals in Turin, the conversations surrounding the balls resurfaced after the Russian tennis star said anyone could play rallies with him now and that he wasn’t enjoying playing tennis anymore.
On Monday, Zverev beat Andrey Rublev 6-4 6-4 and later said that the surface in Turin was “too slow for a hard court. Also, the world No. 2 revealed he thinks the game is “missing game styles” because nowadays there are no big differences between surfaces.
Then he was asked if the balls were to blame for that.
“Yeah, the ball is a big subject. I actually, because I’m on the players council, the ball was a very interesting subject to me, as well. I kind of went into search mode a little bit. I asked companies and I asked…
