Germany's Florian Mayer got his campaign on home soil off to a successful start, beating Marco Cecchinato 7-5, 6-2 in the German Tennis Championships 2017 first round on Monday. The 33 year old awaits the winner of the match between second seed Pablo Cuevas and Russian Andrey Kuznetsov. Fourth seed Gilles Simon opened his quest for a second title in Hamburg, beating local wild card Maximilian Marterer 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in two hours and three minutes. Seemingly in control for last parts of the match, Simon trailed 0-2 in the deciding set, but worked his way back to gain the crucial break in the seventh game. Simon last lifted a trophy – the 12th of his career – in February...
Defending Gerry Weber Open champion Florian Mayer continued his top form in Halle on Thursday, rallying from a set down to to reach the quarter-finals over sixth seed Lucas Pouille 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-3. Mayer squandered a 5-3 lead in the opening set, but secured the lone break in each of the remaining two sets to advance in one hour and 47 minutes. He is now through to an impressive seventh quarter-final in Halle. He arrived at this event last year at No. 192 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, but shocked the home crowd by defeating Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals and Alexander Zverev in the final. Next up for Mayer is top seed and eight-time Halle champion Roger Federer or...
German wild cards Tommy Haas and Florian Mayer upset third seeds Florin Mergea of Romania and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan 7-6(5), 2-6, 10-7 on Monday at the MercedesCup in Stuttgart.
Haas, 39, and Mayer, 33, saved four of seven break points and will next meet Marcin Matkowski of Poland and Max Mirnyi of Belarus. Matkowski/Mirnyi beat Spaniard David Marrero and Frenchman Benoit Paire 4-6, 6-3, 10-4.
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