Tennisprofi Dominik Koepfer (Furtwangen) has cleared the next heavyweight from the ATP Master in Paris and reached the secondary final. Two days after the thriller against the three-time Grand Slam winner Andy Murray, the 27-year-old also defeated the US Open semi-finalist Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada) with 6: 3, 7: 5.
In his second second round for a tournament of the Masters series, it gets to do Koepfer with the next top player, he meets the at position of seven Wimbledon semi-finalists Hubert Hurkacz (Poland). Koepfer was in Paris only short-term as Lucky Loser moved into the main field and had repeated seven match balls of the British at the three-horse victory against Murray in the first round.
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In addition to Koepfer, the tournament doped with around three million euros from the German point of view still Olympic champion Alexander Zverev (Hamburg) at the start. The world ranking lien gets after a freil in the first round on Wednesday evening with the Serb Dusan Lajovic to do. Jan-Lennard Struff (Warstein) was eliminated in the first round.