In the duel with the Italian Andreas Seppi, the 29-year-old prevailed in 7 minutes with 7-5 and 6-4 and earned a duel with Roger Federer. The 20-time Grand Slam winner is opponent in round two after Gojowczyk's walkaway.

Three and a half weeks ago, Gojowczyk had lost in three sets to Seppi at the indoor tournament in Rotterdam, under the California sun the world ranking 85 showed up. now significantly improved, especially in the return game. Gojowczyk scored five breaks against Seppi, who was ranked 38 places higher.

Philipp Kohlschreiber (Augsburg), Jan-Lennard Struff (Warstein) and Maximilian Marterer (Nuremberg) had already reached the second round of the event, which was endowed with 8.35 million US dollars, in which Alexander Zverev (Hamburg) also entered after a walk-through Tournament will get on. He meets Martin Klizan (Slovakia). Brother Mischa had failed for the ninth time in a row on lap one.

Dominic Thiem faces Australian Jordan Thompson on Saturday.

The men's individual tableau

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