Zverev downs Djokovic in straight sets to win ATP Finals

(Via ATP Tour) — Alexander Zverev became the youngest champion at the Nitto ATP Finals in a decade on Sunday, stunning World No. 1 Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-3 to lift the biggest title of his career.

The 21-year-old, the youngest player to triumph at the season finale since Djokovic in 2008, was already the first German to reach the championship match at the season finale since 1996, when Boris Becker did it. And now Zverev is the first player from his country to lift the trophy since Becker did so in 1995, dashing Djokovic’s hopes of a perfect ending to a fairytale season in which he returned from a right elbow injury back to No. 1 in the ATP Rankings.

“Well, right now I don’t realize anything, to be honest,” Zverev told ESPN’s Brad Gilbert. “I tried to be  be way more aggressive.

“I tried to focus from beginning until the end because I kind of went away in the second set in the first match [in round robin play]. But here I really tried to do my best and I’m really happy with the outcome.”