Maxi Marterer and Oscar Otte have made the French Open qualification. For Jan-Lennard Struff, the tournament in Parma is over. In Strasbourg, Jule Niemeier continues to surprise.
Jan-Lennard Struff
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Jan-Lennard Struff was eliminated in his last test before the French Open in the quarter-finals of the Parma ATP tournament. The German number two lost 2: 6, 4: 6 against Tommy Paul from the USA on Thursday. The 24-year-old Paul is currently number 55 in the world rankings 13 places behind the 31-year-old Warsteiner. The clay court tournament in Parma is endowed with 480,000 euros.
Niemeiers surprise train in Strasbourg continues
Jule Niemeier is surprisingly in the semi-finals of a WTA tournament for the first time. The 21-year-old Dortmund woman won 6: 4, 6: 1 against the Dutch Arantxa Rus in Strasbourg on Thursday, after having finished her round of 16 victorious a few hours earlier.
There Niemeier prevailed 6: 4, 7: 6 (8: 6) against Shelby Rogers in the sequel. The American was placed at number seven. The match was canceled and postponed on Wednesday evening due to rain. On Tuesday, Niemeier had her first victory in a tournament in the WTA category in the duel between the qualifiers against the French Diane Parry. In the semifinals, the number 216 in the world rankings will meet the world rankings 38 this Friday. Barbora Krejcikova from the Czech Republic.
So far, the young player from the Porsche Talent Team of the German Tennis Association played primarily at lower-class ITF events, but recently caused a sensation there with a tournament victory in Prague.
Marterer and Otte at the French Open
There was also good news from a German point of view from the French Open qualification: Both Maximilian Marterer (6: 2, 6: 1 against Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves from Brazil) and Oscar Otte (6: 2, 6: 0 against Hugo Dellien from Bolivia) won their final game confidently and are thus in the main field of the second Grand Slam tournament of the year. Anna-Lena Friedsam, however, will be absent there, she lost in the qualification with 1: 6, 3: 6 against the American Varvara Lepchenko.
