On 30 October, the Vienna 500 Points Open ended a battle of focus, resulting in world number 4 German Zverev beating Canadian rising star Ariasim in three sets 6-4, 3-6 and 6-3, with a total of 2 hours and 6 minutes. It was also the first time Zverev had reached the semi-finals of the tournament in his career, when he would face 18-year-old talented rising star Alcaraz, who eliminated Berrettini in the quarter-finals.
As Vienna's second-seeded, Zverev beat Deminaar in a 16-8 knockout round to claim his 300th career ATP victory. In the match against Aliasim, Zverev scored as much as 80% of the first shot, and although he was broken by his opponent in the second set, he was able to stabilize the situation in the third set and finally relied on a stable play to lock in the victory.
A 17-time Tour winner, Zverev has won the Madrid and Cincinnati Masters this season, and he also reversed the elimination of Djokovic in the men's singles semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics, which led to the latter suffering four consecutive defeats in Tokyo and losing the Golden Slam, so he is also regarded as Djokovic's nemesis.
At the same time, the 21-year-old Aliasim is gradually moving away from reaching the year-end finals, currently his annual points of 2420 points, behind the 9th ranked Hulkach 535 points, to catch enough points in the next limited schedule to overtake, although he beat Federer this season, becoming the only post-00 player to beat Federer, but through the overall performance of this season, he is still a little worse than other masters of similar age.
Of course, in addition to the big three, the other post-95 masters in active service often overturn, which shows that the current men's tennis world has gradually been WTA, who has the opportunity to take the position, and anyone may fall off the altar, which is extremely disappointing. However, Nadal should be happy to see such a scene, after all, this is equivalent to alleviating the obstacles for him after his comeback, and there are more opportunities to win more Grand Slams.