'Forget his age!' - Zverev asks fans to respect 'underrated' Djokovic - video Dailymotion

Alexander Zverev acknowledges that he was simply outplayed by three-time French Open champion Novak Djokovic.

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00:00What do you want me to say? He's won 24 of these things.

00:04I think, yes, I expected him to play, to be able to play like this.

00:11I have not seen him play like this this year yet.

00:16I think it was very, very high level from him.

00:20I think at the moment he's a bit underrated, to be honest.

00:23Funny that you say that, but I think a lot of people count him out.

00:29But this year he's had wins over Alcaraz at the Australian Open.

00:34He's had a win over me at the French Open.

00:37Forget the age, I think for any player, those are pretty good results.

00:43Of course, I would have to ask him how he feels physically and how he will recover.

00:50He'll be at 100% the next match, because I do think it was quite a physical match today for both of us.

00:57But, you know, he's still beating the best of the best, so I think everybody needs to respect that.

01:06We need to respect that.