“His team is extremely respectful. I think his coach, his physio, also his second coach, they’re extremely respectful. I think there’s some other people that maybe are in the box that are not maybe from the tennis world, that are not maybe watching every single match. They were a bit over the top,” Zverev explained.
“That’s okay. No issues. No drama. He fought back from two sets to love, so they’re obviously all excited, very pumped up, yeah. But no issues with Taylor. I think Taylor is a great guy. I have absolutely no issues with him.”
Fritz, through to his second Wimbledon quarter-final, offered his side of the story by adding that he had not heard any comments from his box while he was out on the court.
“At the net, like, it’s no big deal. I think he felt that he was for parts, towards the end of the fifth at least, kind of limping around a bit. I think he was annoyed at some people in my box just being loud, cheering for me.”
Zverev added that he was playing “on one leg today”, while noting that he expected Fritz to go on to make the semi-finals, with Fritz facing Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti.
“I do expect him to win in the quarters,” Zverev said. “But also I do know that the match was not high level. I mean, it wasn’t a particularly great tennis match. There wasn’t really long rallies because I couldn’t play long rallies. Again, it was all coming from me. I just couldn’t do that.”
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