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Patna : Defending Champion and 7th seed Alexander Zverev, 22, Germany, stunned top seed and World No 1 Raffael Nadal, 33, Spain, in Group Andre Agassi match in Nitto ATP Finals at O2 Arena, London, UK, in straight sets on November 12, 2019. This was Zverev’s first win over World No 1 Nadal in six meetings.
World No 7 Zverev beat Nadal 6-2, 6-4 in just 84 minutes winning three break points in the match besides winning 7 games in a row. The German won 37 service points to Nadal’s 33. Zverev hammered 11 Aces in the match to 5 by Nadal, who has never won this year end finals tournament played on round robin basis with 8 top players split into two groups.
Zverev’s winning percentage both on his first and second serve ( 88 % & 58 %) was much better than that of top seed Nadal (62% & 43 %). Zverev had 28 winners in the match to the Spainiard’s just 13. Nadal, after the match, said that he was not good enough. Zverev played an attacking game and was aggressive throughout the match.