The organizers of the ATP tennis tournament in Stuttgart continue to hope that Germany’s top player Alexander Zverev will open them again for the first time since 2019.
The 28 -year -old world number third is expected on Monday at the event endowed with 751,630 euros at the start of the lawn season. After a freely in the first round, he is expected to open for the first time on Thursday.
Is there an early end in Paris for Zverevs come?
After his quarter-finals on Wednesday at the French Open in Paris against Novak Djokovic, the organizers in Stuttgart were all the more optimistic that Zverev shows up again on the system of TC Weissenhof after six years.
Despite a break for the Hamburgers of several days, this is not yet certain.
Should the Zverev, which was expected as a large draft horse and actually play on the Killesberg, he will meet the winner of Corentin Moutet’s duel from France in the second round with the Italian Fabio Fognini.
This was the result of the draw on Saturday. The 36-year-old Fognini still won the 2013 tournament on sand.
The Warsteiner Jan-Lennard Struff initially meets the Italian Matteo Arnaldi, top talent Justin Engel from Nuremberg becomes a prelude to a qualifier. The tournament, in addition to Zverev, only other top ten players, Taylor Fritz from the USA, also only gets involved in the second round.