Grass, perhaps the most unpredictable surface, has claimed another illustrious victim in the Halle ATP (Germany), Stefanos Tsitsipasworld number 11, who has fallen to the German Jan-Lennard Struff (41st) by a double 6-4 in just 67 minutes and has frustrated the interesting quarter-final match against the Italian Jannik Sinnerthe new no. 1.
After losing in the Roland quarterfinals against the Spanish Carlos AlcarazTsitsipas has had little experience in his first tournament on grass, a surface on which he has not particularly shined in his career even though he won the title in Mallorca’2022.
The 25-year-old Greek has 21 wins and 16 losses on grass and his best result on Wimbledon They are the round of 16, a round they reached last year and in 2018. The third Grand Slam of the season will be played this season from July 1 to 14.
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The defeat against Struff is a relative surprise, since the German is a consummate ‘bomber’ and a dangerous tennis player when he is right, as has been the case: he has only committed five unforced errors (compared to Tsitsipas’ 17) and has connected 22 hits winners (16 the Greek). Struff has not had a single break point against him and, with a break in each set, he has had enough to win 6-4 and 6-4 and meet Sinner in the quarterfinals this Friday.
Jan-Lennard Struff celebrates his victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas in Halle
Friso Gentsch / LaPresse
Last April, Struff won his first ATP title on the soil of Munich, where at 33 years and 11 months he became the third oldest tennis player to inaugurate his record, only surpassed by the Italian. Paolo Lorenzi (34 years and 7 months in Kitzbühel’2016) and the Dominican Victor Estrella Burgos (34 years and 6 months in Quito’2015).
Botic Van den Zandschulp, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Holger Rune and Taylor Fritz were the German’s victims in that historic title, which he won without losing a set. Especially striking was his beating of Rune, whom he knocked out 6-2 and 6-0.
ATP de Halle
This is how the quarterfinals remain
Friday (12:00 p.m.)
Hurkacz (Pol/8)-Giron (USA)
Zverev (Ale/2)-Fils (From)
Sinner (Ita/1)-Struff (Ale)
Zhang (Chn)-Eubanks (USA)
Round of 16:
Sinner (Ita/1)-Marozsan (Hun) 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3
Struff (Ale)-Tsitsipas (Gre/6) 6-4, 6-4
Hurkacz (Pol/5)-Duckworth (Aus) 7-6 (3), 6-4
Giron (USA)-Berrettini (Ita) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
2024-06-20 19:23:09
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