ATP hall: Federer on course Medvedev, also Zverev in the upper half
Record winner Roger Federer will play against a qualifier at the start of the ATP Tour 500 tournament in HalleWestfalen. Alexander Zverev got a German opponent drawn.
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last edit: Jun 12, 2021, 02:27 pm
Record champion Roger Federer (ATP 8) starts his 18th guest appearance at the NOVENTI OPEN against a qualifier or lucky loser player. But the spectacular first round hit at the 28th edition of the tournament in HalleWestfalen (June 12th to 20th) is the duel between the top ranked second Daniil Medvedev and the last convincing local hero Jan-Lennard Struff (ATP 42), a tricky test, which the Warsteiner gave himself as a "drawing officer". “That is of course a very difficult task for me. But this is my home tournament. I want to take the momentum of the last few weeks with me and really accelerate ", said Struff about his" hammer lot. "At the French Open at the beginning of the week Struff just failed in the last sixteen against the Argentinian Diego Schwartzman.
The German opening game between French Open semi-finalist Alexander Zverev (ATP 6) and Dominik Köpfer (ATP 59) from the Black Forest, who delivered an exciting third-round fight to Roger Federer at the Grand Slam competition in Paris a week ago, guarantees great tennis. French Open finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas (ATP 5), who defeated Zverev in five dramatic sets on the way to his first Grand Slam final on Friday, will start the ATP 500 grass competition just like Japan's ace Kei Nishikori (ATP 49) dealing with a qualifier / lucky loser.
The opening game between the Russian world number nine Andrej Rublev and his compatriot Karen Khachanov (ATP 25) promises to be very exciting. Canada's NextGen hope Felix Auger-Aliassime (ATP 21) will meet the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (ATP 20) in a duel between two strong professionals, who celebrated his first high-profile success as champions of the Masters tournament in Miami in March.
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