No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev denied France’s Ugo Humbert a storybook ending to his week at the Rolex Paris Masters on Sunday with a 6-2, 6-2 championship victory at the Accor Arena.
To claim his seventh career ATP Masters 1000 title, and first in Paris, Zverev was dominant in all facets of the one-hour and 15-minute match, in which he never faced a break point and lost just five points on serve overall.
Humbert, by contrast, struggled in his most prestigious career final: He was broken four times and racked up two dozen unforced errors. The 26-year-old had won his last 13 matches on French soil indoors, which included an upset of No. 2 seed Carlos Alcaraz earlier in the week. But he lost serve for the first time at 1-1 in the opening set, and never gained a foothold against an in-form Zverev.
“I knew I had to play like this to win today,” Zverev, who joined Boris Becker as German champions of the iconic event, said after the match.
“Ugo is an incredible player, but here in Paris, he plays even better than he usually does and I knew that. Once the crowd gets involved, it’s going to be difficult. I had to take that away early, and I did, so I’m happy about that.”
