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. After just 50 minutes, the favorite had reached the next round. In the semifinals, number 1 seeded Zverev meets Swede Mikael Ymer.
The day before, Zverev, who had already failed in the round of 16 at the Australian Open two weeks ago at the Canadian Denis Shapovalov, beat the American Mackenzie McDonald 6: 2, 7: 6 (7: 5). The hard court tournament in southern France is endowed with 490,990 euros.
Zverev had previously announced on Friday that he would not play in the Davis Cup first round game in Rio de Janeiro on June 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.