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Zverev: Towel Use For Superstition Not Sweat


Alexander Zverev is tired of opponents' excessive towel usage

Zverev, who swept Kyle Edmund to power into the Shanghai semifinals, says some players take towel use to "ridiculous" levels insisting on toweling off after nearly every point.

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The Madrid Masters champion said towel rituals are more about superstition than sweat control pointing out some players will towel off after an ace.

"There are some players—some American players, some other players—that go for the towel literally after every single point," Zverev told the media in Shanghai. "That's a bit ridiculous, in my perspective.

"You serve an ace or a double fault, or your opponent serves an ace, and the poor ball kid has to keep running for the towel just because it's a superstition and it's not a use because you're sweating too much or something like that.

"I mean, some players literally use it as superstition. That's not the purpose for it."



The ATP will experiment with a towel rack at next month's NextGen Finals in Milan.

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