ATP Cologne: The field of players is getting stronger - Shapovalov, Wawrinka and Schwartzman are also coming
The Cologne tennis double pack is getting more and more top-class! The entry list for the bett1HULKS Indoors from October 10 to 18, 2020 in the LANXESS arena, which is already peppered with top stars, will be topped again with the field of participants in the bett1HULKS Championship from October 18 to 25, 2020.
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At the second hard court tournament in Cologne, for example, the German number one Alexander Zverev , the three-time Grand Slam tournament winner Andy Murray (GBR), the French crowd’s favorite Gael Monfils and the 2014 US Open Champion, Marin Cilic (CRO), all beat them have named for both ATP 250 competitions, also Denis Shapovalov , Diego Schwartzman and Stan Wawrinka .
The 35-year-old Wawrinka is next to Murray and Cilic the third top star to have already conquered Grand Slam titles. In 2014 the Swiss triumphed at the Australian Open, 2015 at the French Open and 2016 at the US Open. Denis Shapovalov recently demonstrated his great ability by advancing to the quarter-finals of the US Open and reaching the semi-finals at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Rome and made it into the top ten of the world rankings for the first time this week with tenth place . Diego Schwartzman also played a big role in Rome and defeated Rafael Nadal in the "Foro Italico" in the quarter-finals on his favorite surface sand in two sets. Only in the final in Rome did the nimble Argentine with the big fighter heart have to admit defeat to world number one Novak Djokovic.
NextGen meets the established ones in Cologne
"I am very pleased that this year's US Open finalist Alexander Zverev tops the seeding list in both competitions as number one and that the current German number two Jan-Lennard Struff is also present at the two tournaments in Cologne. Zverev, Struff , Murray, Wawrinka, Cilic, Shapovalov and Schwartzman, who are in top form in Rome, as well as many other highly interesting players promise an exciting course of the Cologne events ”, said tournament director Barbara Rittner with conviction.
“We were very happy about the cut-off of 65 for the first tournament, and now a world ranking position of 47 is necessary for the second tournament in order to secure a place in the main field. This guarantees two weeks of world-class tennis at the bett1HULKS tournaments. The young tennis generation with Alexander Zverev, Denis Shapovalov or the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime meets veterans like Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka or Gael Monfils in Cologne. In Cologne there is something for every tennis taste ”, emphasizes Edwin Weindorfer, CEO of the organizing e | motion group.