Alexander Zverev, interview from the press conference after the Olympic victory in tennis: "There is nothing better than that"
Alexander Zverev has won the gold medal as the first German tennis player at Olympic Games. In the finale in Tokyo he clearly defeated Karen Khachanov. Following the press conference, he moved emotionally on the press conference. Here there is complete interview.
_Alexander Zverev, is this success comparable to anything that you've already won in your career? _
Alexander Zverev: I can not compare this with anything. That's so much bigger than anything else in sports. Yes, I won the ATP finals. But the value of a gold medal at Olympic Games is incredible. You do not play for yourself, you play for your whole country, for everyone at home. That's an incredible feeling.
What is important to you to dominate a tournament so that did not even win Boris Becker? Would you have been a bit more beautiful than the dreaming? _
Zverev: There is nothing better than that. Yes, I have the gold medal around the neck. But all at home in Germany, all here supported me. The Olympics are the largest sports event in the world. There is nothing that is comparable to it. The feelings I have that I probably will have in a few days, I can not compare with anything.
Alexander Zverev: "There are few people who are just happier"
_Sie had nine matches in eight days. How did you handle it? _
ZVEREV: How to Look, Okay (laughs). But to be honest, I do not know how to respond to these questions. There are few people who are just happier than me. I have a golden thing around the neck - and that's not one of the 50 chains that I wear else.
_Why has it felt for you when they stood on the podium at the award ceremony? _
ZVEREV: It was an okay feeling, especially when I got the medal. There are few moments in which I felt better.
What is important to them be that they may now also reach and take more people? _
ZVEREV: Sure, at the end of the day I would like to make the tennis sport in Germany popular. I want little children to go to their parents and say: Mom, Dad, I want to try tennis, I do not just want to play football. Of course that's important for me, because I love this sport. This sport gave me this, for which I stand here and what I have reached now. Without tennis, I would not really be someone, more or less. And this sport has given me a gold medal.
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Tennis: Olympic champion in the individual of the past 25 years
Year | Gold | Silver | bronze --- | --- | --- |- 1996 | Andre Agassi | Sergi Bruguera | Leander Paes 2000 | Jevgeni Kafelenikov | Tommy Haas | Arnaud di Pasquale 2004 | Nicolas Massu | Mardy Fish | Fernando Gonzalez 2008 | Rafael Nadal | Fernando González | Novak Djokovic 2012 | Andy Murray | Roger Federer | Juan Martín del Potro 2016 | Andy Murray | Juan Martin del Potro | Kei Nishikori 2020 | Alexander Zverev | Karen Khachanov | Pablo Carreno Busta
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