Australian Open qualification: All Germans failed, Alcaraz makes main field debut
At the qualification tournament for the Australian Open 2021, Dustin Brown and Cedric-Marcel Stebe, the last two German hopes failed.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Jan 13, 2021, 03:16 pm
After the Austrian starters had already failed in round one of the qualification competition for the Australian Open 2021, the German contingent for Melbourne also remains as the ATP world rankings originally gave. Because both Dustin Brown and Cedric-Marcel Stebe missed the peloton on Wednesday in Doha.
Brown lost to the American Maxime Cressy 6: 7 (5) and 4: 6, Stebe lost to the Serbian veteran Viktor Troicki 4: 6 and 2: 6. With Alexander Zverev,Jan-Lennard Struff , Dominik Koepfer and Yannick Hanfmann, four German players will start the first major of 2021, Austria is represented by Dominic Thiem and Dennis Novak . The veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber does without the trip to Australia.
The performance of Junior Carlos Alcaraz was impressive: the only 17-year-old Spaniard defeated Hugo Dellien, always in second place, 6: 2 and 6: 3. On the other hand, Robin Haase, who had no chance against Quentin Halys from France, failed shortly before the goal.
In addition to the 16 qualifiers, six lucky losers will also be allowed to travel to Melbourne. This could give Cedric-Marcel Stebe a chance at a place in the 128 grid.