Becker: 'I would have liked to face Roger Federer, not Nadal and Djokovic!'
Boris Becker would have loved to compete against Roger Federer on grass. The German won three Wimbledon titles, including his first one at the 17 years of age, and Federer triumphed an historical eight times. Speaking after a press conference held in Berlin, Becker said he would have got nervous in facing the Swiss.
He would not like to face Rafael Nadal on clay. While the Spaniard won 11 French Open titles while Becker never reached the final there. On hard courts, if he had the chance, Becker would not play Novak Djokovic who he coached from the end of 2013 to end of 2016 helping him to win six Grand Slam this year. Last year Djokovic recovered from an elbow injury and won Wimbledon, US Open to be world No. 1 again.
Becker also commented on Alexander Zverev's hamstring injury. The German was forced to withdraw from the World Tennis Challenge. 'We hope it's nothing serious. He played four matches at the Hopman Cup in Perth and four mixed doubles. It may be just a precaution, which can leave him being calm for two days, just before it gets serious at the Australian Open. He went from Perth to Adelaide, which is actually a little bit far away. I think it was just too much. Now he needs to rest for two days and then train correctly for Melbourne again. It's never nice to withdraw from a match due to injury, but I was a player as well, and you commit to these exhibitions because you do not know for how much time you will play before. That's why you sometimes need these precautions to be fit again in a Grand Slam, which happened to me before.'
ALSO READ: Rafael Nadal: Worse players than David Ferrer won a Grand Slam title
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2DsRzrP
No comments