Overview
- Zverev said Wednesday on the YouTube show 'Knossi meets' that he has very few close friends, named doubles specialist Marcelo Melo as his best friend, and described his support crew of about 12 people as costing “several million” euros a year.
- Reports this week that Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner withdrew from the Canadian Open leave Zverev as the tournament’s top seed and a leading favorite in Montreal.
- Zverev confirmed he will play mixed doubles at the US Open with Taylor Townsend, adding planned Grand Slam entries to a busy North American hard-court schedule.
- He also announced on Instagram that he will return to the Six Kings Slam in Riyadh, a non-ATP, high‑paying exhibition that human-rights groups have long criticized as sportswashing.
- Those choices feed into a larger debate about player pay, tour scheduling and workload, with Zverev’s public cost breakdown and commercial deals likely to sharpen calls for a bigger share of tournament revenues and clearer governance on exhibition participation.