In a real marathon set, Jan-Lennard Struff compensated for Felix Auger-Aliasime in the 2nd round in Wimbledon. Then the game had to be interrupted on Wednesday (02.07.25) in the evening due to the falling darkness and will now continue on Thursday.
Struff started the encounter very badly and immediately gave up his first serve game. Both players acted nervously and made many mistakes, but the German got his serve back. At the level of 3: 4 from his point of view, Struff wanted too much with his own service, but put pressure, but did not have the precision. The favorite Canadian Auger-Alicassime took advantage of the mistakes, increased to 5: 3 and then secured the first sentence.
Three set balls in series defended and balanced
If the first sentence had “only” lasted 32 minutes, the second thing was really to the point. In the 4: 2 from his point of view, Struff was clearly on course to compensate for the sentence, but then gave the lead back. Both continued to make many mistakes, but the intensity was really high now. 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.
The second set had taken more than twice as long as the first, namely 70 minutes. Since the game had only started at 7 p.m. local time, it was noticeably dawn over London. Accordingly, the visibility became worse and the decision was also clear: Thursday continues. The winner of the game meets the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz in the third round. The top favorite prevailed with 6: 1, 6: 4, 6: 4 against the British qualifier Oliver Tarvet.