Zverev would love to play at Allianz Arena but 'difficult to sell out'

FILE PHOTO - German tennis player and Olympic champion Alexander Zverev waves to the fans after the match of the legends ahead of FC Bayern Munich team presentation and training at the Allianz Arena. Zverev said his club should have had more patience with coach Julian Nagelsmann, who was dismissed last month. (is associated with: «Zverev would love to play at Allianz Arena but 'difficult to sell out'») Matthias Balk/dpa

Bayern Munich fan Alexander Zverev said he would love to play a tennis match at the club's Allianz Arena, but admitted it's a complicated thing to get done.

"To fill a stadium that big, you'd probably have to host a doubles match with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal against Novak Djokovic and me," the French Open champion told the Bild newspaper on Sunday.

Among the players he listed, only Djokovic is still active in professional tennis.

"It would probably be difficult to sell out this stadium with just a singles match," Zverev said. Even he, as Germany's number one tennis player, most likely couldn't pull that off.

"I'm not Federer. I don't know if I could draw 75,000 people to the stadium just to see me and an opponent," he said.

The largest stadium crowd for a tennis match was recorded in Cape Town in 2020, when the "Match for Africa" between Federer and Nadal drew 51,954 spectators.

The world's largest tennis stadium is Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, which seats 24,000 spectators. It's the main stadium for the US Open, which begins in a week.