German trio: only Tatjana Maria reaches the 2nd round in California – out for Siegemund and Niemeier

Dortmund’s Niemeier, on the other hand, continued her negative run. The Wimbledon quarterfinalist lost her opener in California 5-7, 4-6 to Czech Katerina Siniakova and has continued to win just two games on the tour since the start of the year. Siegemund lost 6:7 (5:7), 4:6 to Madison Brengle (USA).

Meanwhile, Jan-Lennard Struff reached the second round of the men’s ATP Masters. The 32-year-old Warsteiner defeated the Frenchman Quentin Halys 1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3 and celebrated his first sense of achievement on the tour this year. In the next round, the German will see Tommy Paul again. At the Australia Open in January, the American had thrown Struff out of the tournament.

Olympic champion Alexander Zverev intervened in the game on Friday in the hard court tournament, which is worth around ten million US dollars. After the bye for the first round, the German number one goes into his second round match against Argentinian Pedro Cachin.