After Daniel Altmaier and Yannick Hanfmann, the third German player was eliminated with Jan-Lennard Struff.
The Warsteiner had to give up 3: 6, 2: 6 on Tuesday evening. Sonego will meet the winner of the game between Alexander Zverev and Marcos Giron (USA) in the next round. For Struff it was the 13th defeat of the opening this year. As a world ranking 103. Had Struff came into the main field of Halle with a wildcard.
The last German tournament victory in East Westphalia has been a few years ago. In 2016 Florian Mayer beat Zverev’s final. Michael Stich (1994), Nicolas Kiefer (1999), David Prinosil (2000), Tommy Haas (2009, 2012) and Philipp Kohlschreiber (2011) also contain the winner’s list of the tournament. Roger Federer (Switzerland) with ten titles is the record winner.
Struff did not come into play well and already gave his second service to 1: 3. At 3: 5, the Warsteiner earned two break balls, but could not use them and ultimately had to hand over the sentence with 3: 6.
Struff initially started the second set more, especially with its own serve. The German was also able to earn a breakball. The decisive breaks, on the other hand, get Sanego in the fifth and seventh game. The game was already over after just an hour.
Our sources:
- Game between Jan-Lennard Struff and Lorenzo Sonego on June 17th
- Sports information service
