Jan-Lennard Struff has the third round of his career in his career for the fourth time in his career Grand Slam-Tournament in Wimbledon achieved. The Warsteiner, now 35 years old, surprisingly defeated the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliasseime in four sets with 3: 6, 7: 6 (11: 9), 6: 3 and 6: 4. The game had started on Wednesday evening, but had to be canceled after two sets due to the dark.
Struff had lost the first sentence on Wednesday only “only” 32 minutes, in the second round it really got down to business. In the Tiebreak, “FAA” initially had three set balls in series, two of them on their own serve, but Struff showed, among other things, a strong return winner and finally won the Tiebreak 11: 9 and a hard serve through the middle.
With a double break to the second set
Struff took the swing from this so important pass on Thursday directly into the new day. The 35-year-old put pressure on the start, served cleverly, precise surcharges, played heavily from the baseline and only used his otherwise favors-and-and-volley, especially on lawn. The Canadian did not find a means against this approach.
At the stand of 3: 3 in the third set, Struff finally managed the decisive break, which he followed one more than 6: 3 in the third round. The fourth sentence then started extremely balanced, both players had trouble keeping their service and had to fend off several break balls – but both struff and “faa” succeeded.
Struff now against Alcaraz
After the Warsteiner in the back in particular had greater effort to keep his service, it was the Canadian who showed nerves at the crucial moment. At 5: 4, Struff used his second break and at the same time match ball, then showed a very small joy dance and can now look forward to the big stage. Because in the third round none other than Carlos Alcaraz is waiting for him.
“Yesterday it was a hard match, I was also a bit lucky. Today it was a good game, aggressive. The last game was very good. Now Alcaraz – horny!” Said Struff at the “Amazon Prime” microphone: “Center Court would be horny, I first played. I have to do my performance, accelerate.”