Alexander Zverev won a match on the ATP tour for the first time in three weeks. The Olympic tennis champion confidently defeated local hero Sebastian Ofner in Vienna 6:4, 6:1 and moved into the round of 16.
The Hamburg native recently lost his opening match in both Tokyo and Shanghai.
Zverev also played against the audience in the Wiener Stadthalle, which loudly supported Ofner. But the tenth in the world rankings kept his nerve against number 44: A break to 4:3 opened the way to winning the first set, in the second round Zverev then won 13 rallies in a row and converted his first match point after 1:17 hours. Zverev and Ofner were previously only twoi Grand Slams met each other. Zverev also won Wimbledon in 2017 and Paris in 2022 without losing a set.
In the round of 16, the German, who won the title in the Austrian capital in 2021, will face Cameron Norrie (Great Britain). Zverev is also fighting in Vienna for further points to qualify for the ATP season finale of the best eight players in Turin (from November 13th). He is currently in seventh place in the “Race”.
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Jan-Lennard Struff also came one round further on Monday at the 2.3 million euro ATP tournament in Basel. The 33-year-old from Warstein moved into the round of 16 against the American Christopher Eubanks (27) after a 7:6 (9:7), 6:4.
Yannick Hanfmann, on the other hand, missed the round of 16. The 31-year-old from Karlsruhe lost to the Scot Andy Murray (36) 5:7, 4:6.