Stat of the Day: Alexander Zverev battles to milestone 350th win of career in Madrid

Alexander Zverev reached a major milestone in Madrid on Friday, battling past Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena in his opening match, 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-0, for the 350th win of his career.

Carballes Baena has been playing very well, winning the second ATP title of his career a few weeks ago in Marrakech and subsequently breaking into the Top 50 for the first time. And he was close to keeping that going against Zverev, leading by a set and a break at 7-6 (6), 4-3, 30-0—but Zverev snuck out the second set and cruised in the third for a three-hour, 25-minute victory.

He finished it off with his 55th winner of the match—a huge backhand down-the-line winner into the corner.

Zverev is just the third man born in 1990 or later to reach 350 career wins, after Milos Raonic and Grigor Dimitrov—the 26-year-old is also the only man currently under 30 years old to hit that number.

ACTIVE MEN’S PLAYERS WITH 350+ CAREER WINS (tour-level):
1,068: Rafael Nadal
1,048: Novak Djokovic
725: Andy Murray
598: Richard Gasquet
582: Marin Cilic
559: Fernando Verdasco
552: Stan Wawrinka
525: Gael Monfils
504: Feliciano Lopez
484: John Isner
431: Kei Nishikori
407: Fabio Fognini
386: Roberto Bautista Agut
383: Grigor Dimitrov [born in 1991]
372: Milos Raonic [born in 1990]
350: Alexander Zverev [born in 1997]

Zverev is now 20-3 in his career in Madrid, winning the title twice in 2018 and 2021. He also reached a third final at the Masters 1000 event last year, finishing runner-up to Carlos Alcaraz.

He’s never lost before the quarterfinals in the Spanish capital.

Awaiting the No. 13-seeded German in the third round will be French qualifier Hugo Grenier, who followed up his first-round victory over Diego Schwartzman with a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (7) second-round win over No. 22 seed Sebastian Korda, who was playing his first match since retiring in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open with a wrist injury.

Zverev and Grenier will be playing each other for the first time.