“To be honest, I don’t know what I should have done better,” said Alexander Zverev after the game. “I hit 20 aces and had no double faults. I played okay from the baseline, Ugo was better there. So it’s okay that he won.”
He won’t play any more tournaments until the start at Wimbledon: “I’ve played a lot and I’m tired. But that’s not an excuse for today.”
Humbert presented himself in the first duel with Zverev as the expected unpleasant opponent. The 22-year-old served well and stayed cool in the tie-break, which he scored 7: 4.
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Humbert’s serve declined, which the Hamburger used and gained the first advantage with the break to 2-0.
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The 24-year-old never gave it away and after a total of 74 minutes he made it 6: 3.
Humbert was unimpressed and took a 3-1 lead after a break in the fourth game of the third set.
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The outsider did not let Zverev back into the game and made it into the quarter-finals with his own serve.
Philipp Kohlschreiber is the last German to be represented in the quarter-finals in Halle, the veteran playing against world number seven Andrey Rublev (Russia) on Friday.
Federer and Struff also out
Germany’s number two Jan-Lennard Struff failed after the opening coup against Rublev’s top-seeded compatriot Daniil Medvedev on US qualifier Marcos Giron.
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