Hamburg European Open: "Would have liked to have won in front of a German audience" - Jan-Lennard Struff already retired
Jan-Lennard Struff has already been eliminated from the ATP tournament in Hamburg.
by Florian Goosmann from Hamburg
last edit: Jul 13, 2021, 06:36 pm
Struff lost 4: 6, 5: 7 to Laslo Djere after a playing time of 1 hour and 50 minutes. Struff was the top seeded German player in Hamburg, but in the end has to start his way home on Tuesday despite some chances.
In the first round everything stayed in line until the end, then Djere had two break chances. With the first, Struff was lucky that Djere put a free forehand behind the baseline, but with the second, Djere was there.
In the second set the Warsteiner caught up a 1: 3, decisive then was a long service game by Djere at 4: 4, when Struff could not use a total of three break chances. At 5: 5 Djere also came back from a 0:30 and 15:40 and used his chance to win in Struff's subsequent service game.
Struff: "He did well then"
"I saw him better in the first sentence, he played a very high level from the baseline," said Struff openly after the match in an interview with Sascha Bandermann on ServusTV. In the end, among other things, there were too few first serves in the field, "he then did well". Above all, the yield of breakballs was bitter: Struff had eight chances, he only used one. "That's not a good yield."
With Struff, the top seeded German player said goodbye to Rothenbaum in round 1. “It's bitter, I would have liked to have won in front of a German audience. But wishing doesn't do any good, I should have done it. "
Previously, Daniel Altmaier had already lost. He came to Hamburg with a win at the Challenger tournament in Braunschweig, but was defeated there by Filip Krajinovic 3: 6, 7: 6 and 1: 6 despite catching up in the second set.
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