Alexander Zverev has revealed his plane was struck by lightning on the way to the French Open. The 28-year-old was travelling to Paris after being knocked out of the Hamburg Open by Alexandre Muller on Wednesday.

"Best story of Roland Garros so far," said last year’s finalist.

The German said: "My trip over was phenomenal, actually. Some funny stories there. My trip here was funny because we were supposed to fly yesterday evening at 6:45 p.m., and we took off from Hamburg, and we were flying together with [Jiri] Lehecka, [Brandon] Nakashima, some doubles guys, and we got struck by lightning, funny enough.

"So we had to do an emergency landing back in Hamburg. Couldn't find another plane, so everybody else flew the next morning. I took another plane and flew around 1am, so I arrived here at 3am.

"So that was quite funny. It was the first time [in my] experience got struck by lightning midair, which is funny because it was a little noise, no real wobbling, nothing, but yeah. So that was my trip over. Best story of Roland Garros so far."

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