Zverev ends year at No 1 after Alcaraz loses in Shanghai

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAlexander Zverev is the first German to finish a year as world number one, and at his age, he's also the oldest man to get there for the first time.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHe got there because Zizou Bergs beat Carlos Alcaraz in Shanghai. Zverev didn't need to hit a ball.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo he won the top spot by being someone else's problem. I've done that at three potlucks and I'm very proud of it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI call that a growth opportunity: you wait, you stretch, and the universe hands you a trophy.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe universe handed it to a man from Hamburg, Vera, after a twenty-one-year-old tripped on his own shoelace in Shanghai.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOldest ever, though. Hope for every late bloomer on this couch.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOldest ever, though. That's a German first for the second time in a century and much better than the first.