The sport of tennis is set for a defining season in 2020. With the top three players in the world over the past 15 years – Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer – entering the twilight of their careers, new players have emerged as genuine threats to their supremacy.

In this eight-part series, we’ll assess each player in the top eight and what they can achieve in 2020. We’ll look at how their positions are under threat and what they can do to attain their goals in the season to come. It’s never easy to look forward, but with our 2020 vision, you’ll have the benefit of hindsight when you’re talking tennis during the next 12 months.

We continue our series with a look at Alexander Zverev, one of the most exciting younger tennis talents. At just 22 years of age, the German had a precipitous rise to fame, winning 11 ATP titles since he burst onto the professional circuit. At 6 foot 6, Zverev isn’t just a giant on court, with many of his peers, such as Rafael Nadal, crediting him with being a future world number one.

When he was just 20, he reached the Top 20 players in the world, an did so when younger than anyone except Novak Djokovic. The 16-time Grand Slam champion himself said of his newest challenger that he believes Zverev could surpass even him.