London: Much was made of the ATP’s top young talent before Wimbledon, but they all crashed out early leaving the field clear for Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal to contest yet another Grand Slam.
Zverev has been the leader of the Next Gen for some time now, and is widely regarded as a future world number one and Grand Slam champion.
However, he has struggled to justify that hype on the biggest stages throughout his career, and Becker says Lendl, who does not travel with Zverev in the summer due to a strong pollen allergy, must take a large portion of the blame for that.
“At the start of this week I said nothing would please me more than to see some of the young players in the men’s game contesting the semi-finals or the final,” Becker told the Daily Mail.“
My prayers do not seem to have been answered. ‘So many of the likes of Stefanos Tsitsipas, Denis Shapovalov and Alex Zverev have ended up falling short of the hopes we had for them.
“I am actually going to leave sixth seed Tsitsipas out of it, because he made it to the semis of the Australian Open and, as I mentioned before the tournament, I still think he has a lot to learn about moving on grass.ool."
