Tennis professional Oscar Otte is in the second round of the ATP Masters in Indian Wells.
The 29-year-old from Cologne beat the Serb Laslo Djere 6: 3, 7: 5 at the start of the hard court tournament, which is worth around 10 million US dollars. For the Davis Cup player, currently number 82 in the ATP ranking and thus the second best German, it was the first win after five defeats in a row.
Olympic champion Alexander Zverev, seeded in twelfth place, enters the first part of the “Sunshine Double” after a bye against Argentinian Pedro Cachin or Nikolos Bassilashvili, the Georgian had moved up for record winner Novak Djokovic. The world number one, who was not vaccinated against the corona virus, was refused entry to the USA.
In the course of the evening, another German, Maximilian Marterer (Nuremberg), intervened in the Masters organized by tournament director Tommy Haas. The 27-year-old prevailed in the qualification and meets the qualifier Alejandro Tabilo from Chile in the first round.