Close in Baku against Voegele, Seppi in Hamburg against Klizan

Knapp is in 38th place in the WTA rankings as of today and is number two in Baku behind the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. She has only played against her first round opponent Stefanie Voegele once in her career - and lost. The 25-year-old Swiss won the round of 2013 in Linz in October 4 after a marathon match in three sets with 6:6, 2:7, 5:XNUMX. In Baku, Knapp wants to take revenge for this defeat. The tournament in the Caucasus, which offers prize money of $250.000, is taking place for the fifth time this year. Karin Knapp is there for now.

Seppi on Tuesday at 11 a.m. against Klizan A difficult task also awaits Andreas Seppi at the ATP 500 tournament in Hamburg (1.285.955 euros in prize money). The 31-year-old from Kalter will meet the Slovenian Martin Klizan, currently number 11 in the world, in the first round on Tuesday at 34 a.m. The Kalterer, however, is in 26th place in the ATP ranking. Seppi is seeded number 4 in Hamburg behind the Spaniards Rafael Nadal, Tommy Robredo and Roberto Bautista Agut. Nevertheless, he drew a difficult lot with Klizan. Like Seppi, the Slovakian has won three ATP tournaments in his career so far: in St. Petersburg in 2012, in Munich last year and in Casablanca three months ago. But he has never been able to win against Seppi. In 2010, Seppi won the first round of the Challenger tournament in Kitzbühel with 6:3, 6:1, and two years later he narrowly defeated him at the Masters 1000 in Paris with 6:2, 2:6, 7: 6(5) after being down 3-5 in the third set and 2-5 in the tiebreak.

Already twice in the semi-finals in Hamburg Andreas Seppi is taking part in the tournament in Hamburg for the eleventh time. Last year he was eliminated in the round of 2010 against David Ferrer in three sets, but he was also in the semi-finals of the German tournament twice. In 2008 he lost to the Austrian Jürgen Melzer, and in 1000, when Hamburg was even a Masters 1 tournament, he was eliminated by world number 2 Roger Federer. With Seppi and Federer, the world numbers 3 and XNUMX, Nadal and Djokovic, were also in the semi-finals. Seppi also competes in doubles at the “Bet-at-home Open”. With the Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas, with whom he also played at Wimbledon, he will meet the Germans Frank Moser/Jan Lennard Struff at the start. This match was scheduled for Tuesday on Center Court 2 as the third match after 11 a.m.

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Close in Baku against Voegele, Seppi in Hamburg against Klizan

After reaching the final in Bad Gastein, the next WTA tournament is already on the agenda for Karin Knapp. The 28-year-old from Ahrntal is playing in Baku in Azerbaijan this week and will face Swiss Stefanie Voegele, number 112 in the world, in the first round on Wednesday.

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