Next up, some scary finals stats.
He’s now won 9 of his last 10 finals. The only final he’s lost since the start of last year came to Alcaraz in Beijing last fall, and he barely lost that one—he actually led 3-0 in the third set tie-break before falling, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (3).
He’s won 22 of his last 24 sets in finals, too. Since dropping the first two sets of last year’s Australian Open final to Daniil Medvedev, the only two sets he’s lost in a final were the two aforementioned sets of the Beijing final to Alcaraz.
He’s won his last 9 sets in a row in major finals. He won last year’s Australian Open final against Medvedev, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3, then defeated Taylor Fritz in the US Open final, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5, and now Zverev, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3.
And he’s 19-5 overall in his career in finals now. At .792, that’s the second-best winning percentage in finals for a man in the Open Era after Thomas Muster, who was 44-10 (or .815). That’s with a minimum of 15 finals played.
With 17, he now has the third-most hard-court titles among active men’s players. He passes Marin Cilic and now only trails Djokovic (71) and Medvedev (18).
He’s also won 16 of his last 18 tie-breaks. That run dates back to the start of last year’s summer hard-court season, dropping one tie-break to Alcaraz in the Beijing final and one more to Tomas Martin Etcheverry en route to a 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2 victory in the second round in Shanghai.
