Miami (AP) – Jan-Lennard Struff was injured in the first round of the tennis tournament in Miami.
The Warsteiner gave up his game against the Spaniard Pedro Martinez when the score was 3:6 and 0:2 because of a foot injury. Daniel Altmaier then lost against qualifier JJ Wolf (USA) 4:6 and 4:6. Previously, Dominik Koepfer was eliminated from the Masters in the first round after a 7:6 (10:8), 4:6, 4:6 defeat against the American Mackanzie McDonald.
Oscar Otte (Cologne), on the other hand, reached the second round with a 6:3, 6:4 win against the qualifier Mitchell Krueger from the USA. The number two seeded Olympic champion Alexander Zverev has a bye in the first round. The hard court tournament in the US state of Florida is endowed with around 8.6 million US dollars.