'Quite alone in life' - Zverev opens up on personal struggles after Wimbledon exit - video Dailymotion

The No.3 seed says "it's difficult to find joy outside the tennis court" after losing in the first round

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00:00I feel very alone out there at times, I struggle mentally. I've been saying that I've struggled

00:07since after the Australian Open, trying to find ways to kind of get out of this hole,

00:12but I keep kind of finding myself back in it in a way and I feel generally speaking quite alone in

00:18life at the moment, which is a feeling that is not very nice. It's not a feeling on a tennis

00:24court, it's just a life feeling in general. As I said, I never felt this way before. It's

00:28difficult to find joy outside the tennis court for me at the moment. It's not an excuse or anything,

00:33I think Arthur deserved to win today and it's nothing that, but it's just something that I

00:38felt for for the past few months. It's funny that I say that because I lost first round,

00:41but I don't think tennis is the problem right now for me. It's something else that I have to find

00:46within me at the moment. It's difficult for me to tell you because I don't have the answers right now.

00:51How are you going to address these feelings? I don't know whether you talk therapy or not,

00:55or whatever. Maybe, maybe for the first time in my life I probably need it. I've been through a lot

01:00of difficulties. I've been through a lot of difficulties in the media. I've been through a

01:05lot of difficulties in life generally. I've never felt this empty before, just lacking joy,

01:13just lacking joy in everything that I do. And it's not necessarily about tennis,

01:18just lacking joy outside of tennis as well. Even when I'm winning matches like in Stuttgart or Hale,

01:22it's not necessarily like a feeling that I used to get where I was happy over the moon,

01:27I felt motivated to keep going. It's just, it's not there right now for me.