Zverev cruises past beleaguered Machac to make French Open third round

[p]The German second seed will face home player [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/halys-quentin/EDve8Ljh/"]Quentin Halys[/a] on Friday for a place in the second week at Roland Garros after a [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/machac-t-S44E7UYr/zverev-a-dGbUhw9m/?mid=bwEpNGFL"]6-4, 6-2, 6-2[/a] win in the night session match on Court Philippe Chatrier.[/p][p][b]"I'm happy where I am, I'm feeling confident in my game and moving forward, looking forward to hopefully being back on this court," said [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/zverev-alexander/dGbUhw9m/"]Zverev[/a].[/b][/p][image alt="Tomas Machac - Alex Zverev match stats" id="8ade4b3a-bc37-455a-a387-f5e1d9c2fe26" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="9f95f5a3-c98a-4b7a-be89-8598d4a0b164" original-width="1080" original-height="1350" /][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/machac-tomas/S44E7UYr/"]Machac[/a], the world number 43, struggled with his movement and took a lengthy medical time-out in the second set for treatment to his left foot.[/p][p][b]"I thought for one and a half sets it was an amazing level... unfortunately, the injury stopped the match flow a little bit," added Zverev. "I'm happy to finish it in three sets."[/b][/p][embed guid="cfd44735-f098-42f5-931a-0bc8aa7f3124" url="https://x.com/rolandgarros/status/2059732116624089235" social-type="twitter" /][p]Zverev took full advantage with a dominant display, saving the only break point he faced as he dismantled Machac in just an hour and 48 minutes.[/p][p]The world number three has come closest to breaking his major duck in Paris, reaching at least the quarter-finals in each of the past five years, suffering a five-set loss to [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/alcaraz-garfia-carlos/UkhgIFEq/"]Carlos Alcaraz[/a] in the 2024 final.[/p]