Sparkasse Trophy: Favorites die in Rungg

The performance density in top tennis is enormous. This became clear once again on Thursday at the Sparkassen Trophy 2016. In the top game of the day, world number 340, Yannick Hanfmann, imposed his game on world number 158 and won 6:1 and 6:3. “I tried to keep the rallies short and put Gaio under pressure from the first shot. I managed this very well for long stretches. It was a strong match for me,” said Hanfmann, who won the ITF tournament in Kassel ($25.000 plus hospitality) a few weeks ago. The 24-year-old German took serve from the Italian top seed three times in the first set. He finished 6-1. The second one was much narrower. An early break by Hanfmann was followed by Gaio's rebreak. With the score at 4:3, the man from Karlsruhe had another break chance, which he capitalized on with a backhand winner down the line. At 5:3 Gaio had two chances to rebreak. Hanfmann fended them off with two first serves, then played a match point and served extremely well again. That was it for Gaio, Hanfmann sensationally in the semi-finals.

Shortly afterwards number 2 gets hit The tournament's number 2, Kolar, also had a terrible day. Too many mistakes made the match an unexpectedly easy task for Jahn (ATP 307). Only at the beginning of the second set did the 26-year-old German briefly lose his rhythm: “I then switched to softer strings and was back in the match.” After a 0-3 deficit, Jahn played six games in a row. “Overall I am very satisfied with my performance. I'm pleased that I'm free of symptoms again after my wrist injury." Jahn was in top form until his injury in April: He won two ITF Futures in Tunisia and one in Morocco in 2016 and improved his world rankings by almost 300 within a short period of time. positions. In the semi-finals, Jahn will face the Italian Adelchi Virgili (ATP 560), who won the first professional tournament of his career in Bergamo in June. In the quarter-finals of the Sparkassen Trophy today he faced Frenchman Jonathan Eysseric (ATP 347). Virgili had a lot of trouble finding his way into the match for a long time. The first set ended 3:6 from the 26-year-old's perspective. A completely different picture in the second set: Virgili suddenly dominated, took Eysseric's serve three times and won the set 6:1. Error after error on both sides in the third set: Virgili finally used his sixth match point to make the final score 3:6, 6:1 and 6:4.

Hernandez-Fernandez is also further The winner of the ITF tournament in Bolzano last week, Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (ATP 296), met Brazilian tennis hope Marcelo Zormann, 2014 junior Wimbledon doubles champion. The game was particularly high-class in the first set. The 19-year-old Zormann stood up to Hernandez-Fernandez and even had set point in the tiebreak of the first set when the score was 6:4 and 8:7. Hernandez-Fernandez still had the better end, winning the tie-break 10:8. In the second, one break was enough for the man from Santo Domingo to win the set 6-4. Hanfmann against Hernandez-Fernandez and Jahn against Virgili: These are the two semi-final games that will be played tomorrow from 13 p.m. at the tennis facility in Rungg/Eppan. The finale will be the double final tomorrow between Kolar/Malla and number one seeds Eysseric/Hernandez-Fernandez.

Sparkasse Trophy - TC Rungg – $25.000 + Hospitality

Single Quarterfinals Yannick Hanfmann (GER/ATP 340) - Federico Gaio (ITA/1/ATP 158) 6:1, 6:3 Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (DOM/4/ATP 296) - Marcelo Zormann (BRA/ATP 492) 7:6(8), 6:4 Adelchi Virgili (ITA/ATP 560) - Jonathan Eysseric (FRA/ATP 347) 3:6, 6:, 6:4 Jeremy Jahn (GER/6/ATP 307) - Zdenek Kolar (CZE/2/ATP 257) 6:3, 6:3

Double semifinals Jonathan Eysseric/Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (FRA/COM) - Marco Bortolotti/Francesco Moncagatto (ITA) 6:3, 7:6(6) Zdenek Kolar/Biastian Malla (CZE/CHI) - Marcelo Tomas Barrios Verra/Juan Paoblo Ficovich (CHI/ARG) 7:5, 6:2

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Sparkasse Trophy: Favorites die in Rungg

Thursday was the day for the Germans: First, Jeremy Jahn knocked number 2, Zdenek Kolar, out of the tournament. Then it was Yannick Hanfmann who dispatched the title favorite Federico Gaio in two sets.

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