Zverev powers past De Jong to ease into second round of Hamburg Open

Alexander Zverev was too strong for Jesper De Jong, beating the Dutchman 6-2, 6-2 at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center to sail into the second round of the Hamburg Open.

The German was in ominous form in front of his home crowd today, breaking his opponent twice in each set without reply to complete a one-sided victory.

In his first match since surrendering a two-set lead against Taylor Fritz in the fourth round of Wimbledon last week, Zverev showed no signs of the hampered movement he alluded to in the aftermath of that loss.

The German was dominant throughout, with his powerful service game particularly on point to shut out De Jong, who could not muster a single break point opportunity.

Zverev, currently ranked fourth in the world, will face Frenchman Hugo Gaston in the next round.

Hamburg ATP 500, other first-round results (Rothenbaum Tennis Center, clay, EUR 1.891.995, most recent results first):

• Holger Rune (2) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-4, 6-4
• Hugo Gaston beat Facundo Diaz Acosta: 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-4
• Sebastian Baez (3) beat Dominik Koepfer: 6-2, 6-3
• Marco Trungelliti (Q) beat Sebastian Ofner: 6-1, 4-3 ret.
• Zhizhen Zhang (8) beat Thiago Seyboth Wild: 7-6 (6), 6-0
• Dusan Lajovic beat Felipe Meligeni Alves (Q): 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3
• Arthur Fils (5) beat Jaume Munar: 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
• Luciano Darderi (7) beat Nick Hardt (LL): 6-1, 2-6, 6-0
• Pedro Martinez beat Matteo Arnaldi (6): 7-6 (4), 6-1
• Francisco Cerundolo (4) beat Francisco Comesana (LL): 7-5, 6-4
• Alexander Shevchenko beat Rudolf Molleker (WC): 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
• Laslo Djere beat Zizou Bergs: 6-3, 7-6 (4)
• Maximilian Marterer (WC) beat SoonWoo Kwon: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-5
• Ugo Blanchet (Q) beat Alexei Popyrin: 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2
• Flavio Cobolli beat Daniel Altmaier: 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3