In a press conference at the Rolex Paris Masters Alexander Zverev spoke about his ability to make a breakthrough in the tennis elite despite the domination of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. The 21-year-old German believes he is not the only young guy to perform well.

'I think that a lot of other young guys are playing great,' Zverev said. 'I think there's a lot of young guys being top 20, top 30 now. You know, I've just managed to win maybe a few more matches here and there and kind of get to the later stages of the big tournaments.

But there's a lot of other young guys that are doing great. Tsitsipas is doing really well, Shapovalov has been doing really well this year I thought, especially with the expectations on his shoulders. It is not easy for us young guys sometimes, you know, we get expected too much from us.

And it's interesting how to see the other young guys handle it as well and kind of see how it goes. I think Khachanov and Medvedev are playing great. But, you know, we'll see what the future holds because I think the other young guys are going to get to the later stages of those tournaments as well soon.' Analyzing how his season has been so far, Zverev added: 'I think this season has been better than last year actually even though I only won one Masters, last year I won two.

But I made two other finals. I've made five semifinals of Masters, which I didn't do last year. And also the big difference this year is a lot of players are back from injury. Last year we had no Novak for half of the year.

We had no Andy. Basically, we had no Stan, and all those players back. So it was more difficult to have a season like that this year than I had last year. And also it's easier to do it for the first time always. It's easier to enter the top-five in the year at one time and then kind of fall back, like, we have seen a lot of times from different players.

And I've kind of stabilized and improved on different things and I've stayed a top-five player. And that, for me, is a huge improvement. I've also improved at the Grand Slams, I thought, a little bit, especially in Roland Garros I thought I played well until I got injured unfortunately.

But besides that I thought this season was even maybe better, and also, the season isn't over yet.' ALSO READ: 'Roger Federer should never play on clay again' - Andy Roddick