Zverev didn’t find the match at all against Davidovich Fokina. A completely unsuccessful overhead shot in the first service game was followed by two double mistakes in a row – the first break went to zero for the Spaniard.
Although the Hamburger managed to win the first game on his own service, it stayed that way. The first set was gone after just 24 minutes. The first serve in particular let Zverev down. He fielded only 56 percent of his first serves.
In the second set, too, Zverev did not want to succeed despite a slight improvement in the error rate. The world number 16. was broken twice again by the Spaniard, who was unable to win a single set in the previous three duels with Zverev, and also gave up the second round in just 38 minutes.