Vienna, July 12, 2026
Alexander Zverev plays the final against Jannik Sinner on Sunday at Wimbledon, thus facing the same opponent who had downed him in three sets at the Wiener Stadthalle at the end of October.
It is a rematch of a final that Austrian tennis and the domestic tournament organizers count as a stroke of luck. On October 26, Sinner had won the final of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna 6:3, 3:6, 5:7 against Zverev. Now, less than a year later, the same two players meet in a Grand Slam final. "Das ehrt uns sehr, auch weil hier die Nummer eins gegen die kommende Nummer zwei spielt," sagte Turnierchef Herwig Straka.
Zverev approaches this match with a changed sense of self. At the French Open in Paris, he had won his first Grand Slam title after Sinner had physically collapsed in the semifinals while leading 2:0 in sets and 5:1 in the third. "Ich sehe mich mit jedem auf Augenhöhe, das ist das Wichtigste," sagte Zverev nach dem Wimbledon-Halbfinale. Back in January, after the final loss in Melbourne, he had described Sinner as "derzeit in einem anderen Universum als alle anderen."