ATP: No Swiss victories in Gstaad, Altmaier in Umag
Instead of a total of three wild card players and one qualifier from Switzerland, only established players prevailed at the clay court event in Gstaad. The German Daniel Altmaier is in the round of 16 in Umag.
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Jul 20, 2021, 09:57 pm
What happens in top tennis in Switzerland after Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka? If you wanted to look for answers to this question at the ATP World Tour 250 event in Gstaad, you unfortunately couldn't find any. On Monday, wild card players Johan Nikles, qualifier Sandro Ehrat and Marc-Andrea Huesler had to give up the sails, with the latter just missing a sensation. The 25-year-old from Zurich brought the eight-lined Spaniard Feliciano Lopez to the brink of defeat, but had to give in at 4-6, 6-4 and 5-6 due to an injury to his left toes.
On Tuesday, the two young hopefuls Leandro Riedi and Dominic Stephan Stricker also lost out. While the 19-year-old Riedi had to give the five seeded Federico Delbonis (Argentina) the first place with two 3: 6, the 18-year-old knitter suffered a 4-6, 4-6 defeat against the French Arthur Rinderknech. From the DACH region only the Austrian Dennis Novak is at the start. In the round of 16 he will meet the Norwegian Casper Ruud, who was last week's tournament winner at the event in Bastad, which was also played on clay.
Good news from a German point of view comes from Umag in Croatia. Daniel Altmaier, who had successfully fought his way through the qualification, profited from a surrender of his French rival Corentin Moutet with a score of 5: 7, 6: 1 and 0: 0. The Kempener will face the winner of the game Gianluca Mager (Italy) and Pedro Martinez (Spain) in the second round.