The tennis year 2020 from… Jan-Lennard Struff
Jan-Lennard Struff finished the tennis year 2020 again as the second best German behind Alexander Zverev . The 30-year-old is still waiting for his first tournament win.
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last edit: Dec 08, 2020, 05:20 pm
Jan-Lennard Struff is a frequent player, as Davis Cup boss Michael Kohlmann put it a few days ago in an interview with tennisnet. So a man who it helps to play a lot of matches so that he can find the right rhythm for him. Now it is in the eye of the beholder whether a number of 30 games in the tennis year 2020, which was battered by Corona, is a lot. Or not enough for someone like Jan-Lennard Struff.
The win rate of the now 30-year-old Warsteiner is exactly 50 percent. Struff won two of his victories, especially sovereign ones, in the service of the German Davis Cup team in the important game against Belarus, two more in the ATP Cup against Greece with Michail Pervolarakis and Canada with Félix Auger-Aliassime . Eleven match successes remain on the ATP tour. A result that Jan-Lennard Struff hibernates in 36th place in the world rankings, but which could have been much better.
Struff again and again against Djokovic
Because the German number two was not exactly haunted by luck. Opening the Australian Open against Novak Djokovic is the maximum penalty. And things always don't go as well against Auger-Aliassime as at the ATP Cup - in Rotterdam it was a defeat for Struff. At the following event in Dubai the semi-finals would have been possible, against Stefanos Tsitsipas Struff cut a very good figure as usual, but lost in three sets.
Jan-Lennard Struff played his best tournament in Cincinnati / New York, where he lost to Djokovic in the quarterfinals after victories against Alex de Minaur, Denis Shapovalov and David Goffin. As in round three of the US Open.
In the fall, there were also two significant defeats against compatriots: In Roland Garros, Struff lost in the second round against Daniel Altmaier, in Cologne 1 against Oscar Otte at the beginning. The tennis year 2020 ended with a 3: 6 and 4: 6 against Vasek Pospisil in Sofia.
Statistically speaking, Struff can also be satisfied with his service in 2020: he hit 252 aces and won 80 percent of his service games. As a setback, he managed a break in 38 percent of the cases. What is still missing: the first title on the ATP tour.