Alexander Zverev crashes out early in Munich

Alexander Zverev lost the first match he played at the BMW Munich Open this year against O'Connell 7-6(2) 6-4. quite similarly to how he lost early in the event last year.

The Australian has been playing really solid tennis for a while and he found a really bad performance from Zverev to take him down in two sets. Zverev has been quite up and down lately though he had a really solid showing in Monte-Carlo. This match wasn't very good and looked quite similar to last year's exit from this event which was also a rather weak performance.

O'Connell had an early lead but he gave back to Zverev who was able to drag himself to a tiebreak. In the tiebreak, O'Connell outplayed Zverev to take the set 7-2. The second set featured Zverev once again struggling to find a good rhythm as he lost his serve fairly early in that set as well. He would break back and make it 4-4 but then he lost his serve once more and this time it was the final time as the Australian finished things off 6-4.