Oscar Otte is in the semi-finals in Halle - and cracks the top 40
Oscar Otte (ATP No. 51) is in the semi-finals of the lawn tournament in Halle/Westphalia.
by SID / tennisnet
last edit: Jun 17, 2022, 03:04 pm
After a strong comeback, the man from Cologne defeated the eighth seeded Russian Karen Khachanov 4: 6, 7: 6 (7: 5), 6: 4. In the round of the last four, Otte now meets the world number one Daniil Medvedev or the Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut.
Otte cracks the top 40
With his third semi-final entry on the ATP tour this year, Otte will be at least 38th in the world rankings that will be published on Monday, which is higher than ever. He is currently in 51st place, which he achieved when he reached the semi-finals in Stuttgart last week. That was also his career high.
It is the first time that Otte has reached the semi-finals of a 500 tournament.
Otte is the last German participant in the tournament. Daniel Altmaier (Kempen), Jan-Lennard Struff (Warstein) and Henri Squire (Duisburg) had previously failed. The two-time finalist Alexander Zverev (Hamburg) is injured in the preparatory tournament for Wimbledon (from June 27).