Jannik Sinner reaches the quarter-finals of the «Terra Wortmann Open», ATP 500 on grass at the OWL Arena in Halle, Germany, with a prize pool of 2,411,390 euros. The almost 23-year-old tennis player from South Tyrol, number 1 seed and leader of the world rankings, beat the Hungarian Fabian Marozsan in three sets in the second round (round of 16), with a score of 6-4 6-7(4) 6-3 .
For a place in the semi-finals the Italian will face the winner of the match between the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, sixth seed, and the German Jan-Lennard Struff, who eliminated Luciano Darderi on his debut. Sinner’s doubles partner, Hubert Hurkacz, also reached the quarterfinals: the Pole, fifth favorite of the tournament, won 7-6(3) 6-4 over the Australian qualifier James Duckworth.
A defeat for Carlos Alcaraz is always a surprise, but in this case it is perhaps a little less so. Meanwhile, his opponent, Jack Draper, who beat the Spaniard in two sets in the round of 16 at Queen’s 7-6 (3) 6-3, is today perhaps the fittest player ever on grass (on Sunday he won the tournament of Stuttgart). Furthermore, by the world number two’s own admission (but from Monday he will drop to number 3, due to the points lost in this tournament, won in 2023) the preparation for Queen’s was not, let’s say, perfect, from the point of view physical and mental. The fact is that Alcaraz’s unbeaten run on grass stops at 13 matches (he hadn’t lost since the 2022 Wimbledon round of 16 match against Sinner) and alarm bells probably went off in London for the reigning Championships champion .
