ATP Challenger: Sinner, Kohlschreiber and Co. in Bendigo on the hunt for points
The ATP Challenger tournament in Bendigo, which should originally have been held in Canberra, has a prominent field of participants.
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last edit: Jan 05, 2020, 03:34 pm
There are currently not many opportunities to do your job as a professional tennis player. Of course: The ATP Cup ties up the most prominent resources in the industry, the best of the "rest" will have fun starting Monday in the main field of the traditional ATP Tour 250 tournament in Doha. There, Stan mentioned Wawrinka , who decided early on not to participate in the ATP Cup, with Milos Raonic or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, two other prominent veterans are also involved.
But that was it with the ATP events, the event in Pune was postponed by a month. No wonder that the field of the greatest challengers from week two is impressive. However, the outer circumstances in Australia are known to be precarious at the moment. Tennis In the capital Canberra is currently out of the question, as Christopher Kas vividly portrayed in the tennisnet podcast "Quiet, please" .
Sinner at three, Kohlschreiber at four
And so the pack moved on to Bendigo, relatively close to Melbourne, where some of the players will qualify for the first Grand Slam tournament of the year after appearing at the 125,000 Challenger. First, however, a maximum of 125 points are available. And the crowd of applicants reads prominently. Above all with Jannik Sinner , the 18-year-old South Tyrolean who confirmed his success at the #NextGen-Masters in Milan with the victory at the subsequent Challenger in Ortisei.
However, Sinner is only in third place in Bendigo, led by Ugo Humbert ahead of Andreas Seppi. Number four is one of three Germans with Philipp Kohlschreiber , Dominik Koepfer is in eight, Peter Gojowczyk completes the list of players in the series. Gojowczyk has recently been coached by Christopher Kas - and like Kohlschreiber and Koepfer decided against naming for the ATP Cup. From a German perspective, Alexander Zverev and Jan-Lennard Struff will compete there, unchallenged. It is unlikely that Mats Moraing will hit a competition ball as the third single player. The same also applies to Sebastian Ofner in the Austrian team. The Styrian chose the national selection and a place behind Dominic Thiem and Dennis Novak. And thus probably goes to the qualification for Melbourne without match practice.