Top seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo stayed unbeaten on the grass on Wednesday in Halle, moving into the Gerry Weber Open quarter-finals with a 6-4, 4-6, 10-8 victory against Japan's Kei Nishikori and Spaniard Fernando Verdasco. Kubot/Melo, champions at the Ricoh Open in s'-Hertogenbosch on Sunday, won 83 per cent of their first-serve points to advance in 83 minutes. They will next play Spaniards Roberto Bautista Agut and David Ferrer. Watch Live On TennisTV Watch Full Match Replays Third seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau dismissed home favourites Dustin Brown and Jan-Lennard Struff 7-6(3), 6-4. Germans Alexander Zverev and Mischa Zverev became the first doubles team to reach the semi-finals when Brian Baker and Alexander Peya retired down 2-3...
Alexander Zverev continued his solid start to the grass season on Wednesday at the Gerry Weber Open, downing fellow German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals. "I'm very satisfied because Philipp is someone who can play very well on grass. He mixes it up well with his slice and serve, so he's always a difficult opponent on this surface," said Zverev. "I'm glad I could win in two sets and have the feeling I played well." The 20 year old Zverev picks up his first FedEx ATP Head2Head win over Kohlschreiber in three attempts, avenging losses from 2015 in Munich and the US Open. He didn’t face a break point in the match, firing 10 aces and landing...
Looking back at events of the past 25 years reveals that the world was in many ways very different more than two decades ago. In 1993, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk were the Nobel Peace Prize winners. The European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement were established. Bill Clinton became President of the United States. From a tennis standpoint, much has changed as well. The inaugural Gerry Weber Open made its debut in Halle, on 14 June 1993. Some initially were sceptical of the staging of a grass-court event in the North Rhine-Westphalia countryside. Holding it at the same time as the historically respected Queen’s Championships, the long-time tournament in London, seemed risky. It may have looked...
Mischa and Alexander Zverev are the first brothers in almost 25 years to concurrently rank in the Top 30 of the Emirates ATP Rankings. Javier and Emilio Sanchez last achieved the feat in August, 1992.
Alexander Zverev, Richard Gasquet, and Roberto Bautista Agut all advance to the Gerry Weber Open quarter-finals, as Robin Haase ends Dominic Thiem's Halle campaign. Watch live videos at tennistv.com.
