Andrey Rublev is good friends with Alexander Zverev and in a talk with the ATP Tour, the newly crowned Monte Carlo champion recalled being mistaken for Zverev.
There are some similarities between Rublev and Zverev with both being tennis players and their hair generally being medium length. Zverev is quite a bit taller than Rublev and more blonde as opposed to Rublev who is more ginger. However, he used to be mistaken for Zverev though he never understood why:
“First time that we met, I remember was in Mallorca and I don’t know, 12 or something years old tournament. And I remember, he went out from elevator and everybody like, looking at him and [said], “It’s you, it’s you walking there!. I look at Sascha [Zverev] and say, no chance I look like this guy.”
He also remember the first time they played against each other:
“[In Moscow] it was a typical match that both of us didn’t want to play because it’s a consolation, no motivation at all but then when you start to play, you don’t want to lose. In the end, we finish more motivated than the main matches that I lost with him.”