Yannick Hanfmann reached the round of 16 at the ATP Tour 250 tournament in Munich with a hard-fought three-set win against Alexander Shevchenko.
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last edited: April 16, 2024, 9:00 p.m
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Yannick Hanfmann is in the round of 16 in Munich
Maximilian Marterer missed a big surprise at the ATP tournament in Munich. The 28-year-old from Nuremberg lost to fifth-seeded Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime 7:6 (7:5), 6:7 (6:8), 6:7 (3:7). The tough wrestling match on Center Court lasted 3:24 hours.
Marterer missed his great chance to win a match on the ATP tour for the first time since October 2023 in the third set when he only had to give up his serve when the score was 5:2 and did not use his only match point when the score was 6:5 could. The defeat is the eighth in a row in an opening match for the 101st in the world rankings.
Koepfer fails because of Garin
Dominik Koepfer had previously been eliminated as the second of seven Germans in the main field. The 29-year-old left-hander from Furtwangen lost to the Chilean Cristian Garin, who won the final in Munich in 2019, 6:7 (3:7), 3:6 in temperatures of around eight degrees and unpleasant wind.
Koepfer, seeded number seven and currently number 54 in the world rankings, was competing in Munich for the second time. Since the tournament in Hamburg in July 2021, he has not won a match on clay on the ATP tour. In March, Koepfer only failed in the round of 16 against Daniil Medvedev at the Masters in Miami after impressive victories.
Hanfmann follows Molleker
Things went better for Yannick Hanfmann (Karlsruhe), who defeated Alexander Shevchenko 6:7 (6:8), 6:3, 7:5 earlier in the evening. With the win against the number eight seeded Kazakhs, Hanfmann moved into the second round for the fifth time in his fifth participation in Munich. The world number 61 meets there. on Marc-Andrea Hüsler from Switzerland.
The Swiss won 3:6, 6:1, 6:3 against young German player Marko Topo (Gräfelfing). The 20-year-old also lost his fourth opening match on the ATP tour. For the tournament in Munich, Topo received a wildcard from tournament director Patrik Kühnen.
Number one seed Alexander Zverev will play his opening match on Wednesday against Austrian Jurij Radionov. Only on Thursday will Jan-Lennard Struff, seeded number four, and defending champion Holger Rune from Denmark, seeded number two, start the individual competition.
Here is the individual tableau in Munich
2024-04-16 18:59:47
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