French Open: Jan-Lennard Struff rounds off a perfect German day with a three-set success over Facundo Bagnis
WithJan-Lennard Struff , after Alexander Zverev , Dominik Koepfer and Philipp Kohlschreiber, there is a fourth man from Germany in the third round of the French Open. The Warsteiner beat Facundo Bagnis 7: 5, 7: 6 (1) and 6: 4.
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Jun 03, 2021, 08:04 pm
Jan-Lennard Struff completed the German quartet in the third round of the French Open. The 31-year-old Warsteiner defeated Facundo Bagnis from Argentina on Thursday 7: 5, 7: 6 (1), 6: 4 and ensured that so many professionals from the German Tennis Association (DTB) were still in the tournament after the second round are like they haven't been since 1993.
At that time, Patrick Kühnen, Carl-Uwe Steeb, Marc-Kevin Goellner, Bernd Karbacher and Michael Stich even made it into the third round. In addition to Struff, Alexander Zverev (Hamburg), Philipp Kohlschreiber (Augsburg) and Dominik Koepfer will also be there this year.
Struff, who reached the round of 16 in Paris in 2019, was more consistent than his opponent in the decisive phases and now meets the 18-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz or the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili (No. 28).
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