Alexander Zverev has planned his comeback

Alexander Zverev suffered an ankle injury in June earlier this year when competing in the French Open where he was knocked out in the semi finals by Rafael Nadal due to retiring mid game with his injury.

The German took to social media to explain his reasons of recently backing out of the US Open as he felt it was too much of a risk coming back too early.

“Hey guys. Just a little update. Just wanted to tell you guys that the recovery is going extremely well and I’m super happy about where I am right now. But unfortunately, I will not come to New York this year,” he announced, adding, “It was a very tough decision but the way the recovery is going, and how well everything is, I just don’t want to take the risks right now and play a best of five-set match as my first match back.”

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Zverev has only ever reached one Gland Slam final which was in fact at the US Open where he narrowly missed out on the win. He also took to social media to display his frustration of missing out on going one step better than 2020.

“Yaa, of course I will miss it. Of course, I will be watching from far away. Unfortunately, I didn’t have another week or two where I would have been one hundred percent ready but it is how it is,” he stated.

In terms of the World number 2's return to action he say's he hopes to represent his country in the Davis Cup which will be played on the 13th-18th of September.

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“I’m hoping to see everybody at the Davis Cup and I’m looking forward to being back as soon as possible so have fun and hopefully everybody will have a good US Open,” Zverev concluded.