Tennis pro Oscar Otte clearly missed the round of 16 at the grass classic in Wimbledon. The 28-year-old from Cologne lost in the third round to young star Carlos Alcaraz 3: 6, 1: 6, 2: 6 and at times received a lesson from the Spaniard.
After just 98 minutes, the 19-year-old converted his first match point. “I don’t know what was going on, but that was definitely nothing today,” said Otte about a “match to forget”. “I didn’t make it difficult for him at all, so he was able to break free.”
This eliminated the last of seven German tennis players in the men’s competition. In the absence of the injured Olympic champion Alexander Zverev, Otte was the German number one in the men’s at Wimbledon and was seeded in a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career.
Alcaraz had a lot more trouble in his five-set win against Warsteiner Jan-Lennard Struff, but is slowly playing in top form on the unfamiliar grass surface. “In the end he rolled over it, I didn’t even know what to do,” said Otte. “He already played well. It would have been difficult if I had shown my best tennis. But I made it much too easy for him that way.”
The Spaniard Alcaraz meets the Italian Jannik Sinner in the round of 16. Then there could be a possible duel with number one seeded Novak Djokovic from Serbia.