Montpellier (dpa) – Olympic tennis champion Alexander Zverev easily reached the semifinals at the tournament in Montpellier. The 24-year-old from Hamburg won his quarter-final against Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 6-1, 6-0.
In the semifinals, number 1 seeded Zverev meets Swede Mikael Ymer. The hard court tournament in southern France is endowed with 490,990 euros.
Zverev, who had already failed in the round of 16 at the Australian Open two weeks ago against Canadian Denis Shapovalov, had previously announced that he would not play in the Davis Cup first round match in Rio de Janeiro on April 4th/5th. March starts. “I’m sad to miss the Davis Cup preliminary round in Brazil. Unfortunately, with two upcoming Masters tournaments on another continent and surface, the place and time don’t fit into my tournament schedule,” said Zverev in a statement.
The week after the Davis Cup game, the Masters 1000 event will be played in Indian Wells, after which the tennis stars will continue to Miami. Team boss Michael Kohlmann nominated Jan-Lennard Struff, Oscar Otte, Daniel Altmaier and the two doubles specialists Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz for the match on clay in Brazil.