The day before yesterday, at the Acapulco arena, Zverev caught fire again.
To be precise, it should be two fires. The first fire was that his emotions were on fire, he was not inferior to the referee during the game, and then smashed the referee's chair with a racket after the game, and was disqualified by the ATP, canceling the $31,000 prize money and points from the station, and the incident will be further reviewed in the next step.
The second fire refers to the fact that the incident was on fire, and this news dominated the headlines of almost all the tennis media, causing widespread attention and discussion.
His girlfriend Tomara sat in the box and witnessed all this, and the other day the two posted photos of a travel show on social media, and this sweetness was swallowed up by anger and the harsh punishment that came with it.
Taking stock of past experiences, there are not many black histories of Zverev's fiery temper. In addition to the audience's personal observation of smashing the beat, arguing with opponents and referees, Zverev was also exposed by former coach Ferrero that the training was not focused enough and easy to lose control of emotions, and his ex-girlfriend Salipova publicly accused him of domestic violence and verbal abuse by Zverev.
Some people speculate that the direct reason for Zverev's emotional loss of control is the referee's controversial decision, which may also be due to fatigue accumulation, and his singles match lasted until about 4:55 a.m. local time the day before, the latest game in the history of men's tennis.
In my opinion, it is not surprising that Zverev has these scandals, and it would be surprising if he could have played honestly and made solid progress. I say this based on a comprehensive judgment based on his private life and view of mate selection.
This judgment can be further expanded, that is, it is difficult for a girlfriend from a player in the entertainment industry to create a very great professional achievement.
Next, we will put the facts and reason to argue this point.
Unlike basketball, football and other group sports, tennis is an individual sport, and players must have a consistent and stable performance, and this stability is mainly reflected in the following two aspects.
First, we must keep the state of the game stable. Tennis uses a 52-week rolling points system, which requires players to strive for consistent results. Taking Raducano as an example, the 12th place she currently has 2664 points, before the start of this year's US Open she will be deducted 2040 points from the previous year (2000 points for the champion and 40 points for the qualifiers), assuming that she has no new points before this year's US Open, then after deducting the US Open championship points, she will only have 624 points left, and the ranking will fall out of the top 100.
Therefore, if you want to maintain the stability of the ranking, you must play steadily and stably. Moving forward requires steady training, and all of this requires a stable life and stable emotions, and not yet getting hurt.
The picture below is a visual illustration of how great Nadal is, who has been in the top 10 for 17 consecutive years, and this greatness is premised on stability. The last time Nadal was out of the Top 10 was on April 18, 2005, 17 years ago, when nine of the top 10 lists should have been classified as players of the previous generation, when world number one Federer was only 23 years old.
Second, we must ensure the stability of our emotional life. Over the past 20 years, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic have all but monopolized men's tennis as three of the greatest players of all time, and all three of them have had a stable emotional life.
Looking through the growth files of the big three, we found that they had determined a lifelong partner before they became famous, and there was never a scandal, let alone a girlfriend.
In contrast, today's young players, changing girlfriends is already a daily operation. Of course, changing girlfriends is purely a personal matter and personal freedom, and no one has the right to interfere.
However, public figures in the sports and entertainment circles have always been people's talk after dinner, they have the freedom to choose, and we also have the freedom to comment, as long as the comments do not violate the law.
Frequent girlfriend changes will definitely interfere with life and training, making players lose concentration and find it difficult to maintain a stable state and stable play. This is the obvious truth.
So why did I specifically mention girlfriends from the entertainment industry?
In my opinion, frequent girlfriend changes, especially new girlfriends are from the entertainment industry, and the impact on players will be even worse.
To use a less appropriate analogy, the difference between a tennis star and an entertainment star is like a mathematician and an artist, the former is mainly inward, requiring concentration and dedication; the latter is mainly outward expansion, needing to diverge and break the convention. Entertainment stars need freshness, always have new excitement, they often hate the monotonous life, and tennis players need this kind of boring, day-to-day training.
Think of Nadal's habits and almost paranoid lifestyle! What young entertainment star could stand his Puritan life? It is the highly disciplined life and training day after day that makes Nadal great and legendary.
So, when Tim broke up with Mladenovich and found a new acrobat as his girlfriend, I became suspicious and worried about his future career achievements.
Compared with Tim, Zverev is no worse, not only does he change girlfriends frequently, but his ex-girlfriend is also a model, one has given birth to an illegitimate daughter for him, the other is in a German court with him, and the ATP's investigation into his domestic violence has not yet ended. Today, his new girlfriend, Tomara, is still from the entertainment industry, and her nude photos have appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine, and she has had a complicated history of love, cohabitation, and brief marriages with many people.
With such a girlfriend around you, how much thought and energy do you think Zverev can devote to training and competition? And how much help and support can such a girlfriend really help and support his career?
Medvedev, who is also a new generation of players with Zverev, has been jokingly called "early marriage at an early age" by many people. Medvedev's emotional life is stable, and his wife silently takes care of his daily affairs behind his back, which allows her husband to devote himself to the tennis career. For that reason alone, I think Medvedev's future career achievements will be much higher than Zverev's.
In other words, in the "four small giants" of Thiem, Tsitsipas, Medvedev and Zverev, leaving aside factors such as physical fitness, technology, tactics, emotional control ability, ball quotient, etc., only in terms of mate selection and lifestyle, Medvedev is most similar to the big three, and the possibility of becoming a giant in the future is also the greatest.
Further back, Agassi's performance slipped during his relationship with entertainment star Brooke, and he only returned to the top after his relationship with Graf.
For another example, the former tennis "Tsar" Safin, in his career, has many love and scandalous experiences, and his girlfriends in the entertainment industry alone include Dasha, Kolikova, Nastia and others. In addition to winning the Australian Open in 2005, Safin's competitive status and results during his time with these girlfriends were very flat.
Of course, there are many factors that have led to the decline in Agassi and Safin's performance, but the girlfriend in the entertainment industry is certainly an important factor in it.
Children are long, heroes are short. Heroes are sadder than the Beauty Pass, and heroes who pass the Beauty Pass are often more likely to become great people. History is a mirror that reflects reality and will illuminate the future. (Source: Tennis House Author: Yun Cirrus Yunshu)