A lot of shadow and a ray of hope for German tennis at the Australian Open 2024: While the doubles of Yannick Hanfmann and Dominik Koepfer continued their surprising triumph, significantly higher traded pairings with German participation had to give up on Wednesday.
Hanfmann and Koepfer, who last competed together as a doubles team in Halle 2021 before the Australian Open 2024, won their quarterfinals against the seventh-seeded pairing of Hugo Nys (Monaco) and Jan Zielinski (Poland) 6:4 and 7:6.
During the course of the tournament, the DTB duo sensationally defeated Marcel Grannolers (Spain) and Horacio Zeballos (Argentina), who were in fourth place, as well as the Australian defending champions Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler – now the next coup followed.
“It just feels great, it’s a lot of fun. We want to keep it up,” said Koepfer, his partner Hanfmann added: “It just clicked in our game in these week and a half, we love it and are enjoying every second.”
Now waiting in the semi-finals are the Italians Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori, who surprisingly defeated the German Davis Cup doubles Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz 7:5, 6:4 and thus prevented a guaranteed German finalist.
Meanwhile, Laura Siegemund also has to finally bury her dream of the title Down Under. The 35-year-old, alongside her new partner Barbora Krejcikova from the Czech Republic, lost her quarter-final against the Czech Katerina Siniakova and Storm Hunter from Australia 6:4, 5:7, 4:6.
Explosive: Siniakova and Krejcikova won no less than seven Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold together, Siegemund also narrowly failed in the singles against Hunter.
German tennis hope still in the race
In the junior doubles competition, too, the majority of German hopes ended in the quarter-finals.
Diego Delura-Palomero and Max Schönhaus failed against Peter Brunclik (Czech Republic) and Viktor Frdrych (Great Britain) with 2:6 and 2:6, Max Stenzer and Matthew Forbes from the USA narrowly lost to the US duo Kaylan Bigun and Jagger Leach 3:6, 7:6 and 4:10.
Julia Stusek, however, can still hope for the juniors. Julia Pasticova from the Czech Republic defeated the German Maya Joint from Australia and Kriatiana Sidirova from the Czech Republic 0:6, 6:1 and 10:5.
2024-01-24 14:16:00
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