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But now quickly: Alexander Zverev did not make it exciting against Tallon Griekspoor
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Alexander Zverev followed Dominik Koepfer into the second round of Wimbledon.
The best German tennis professional had no trouble against the Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor and won 6: 3, 6: 4 and 6: 1.
Zverev only needed 1:29 hours against number 129 in the world.
With a much longer session, the German tennis professional Oscar Otte and his French opponent Arthur Rinderknech caused a curiosity with their first round match at Wimbledon: The two qualifiers had to interrupt their duel on Monday evening because the falling darkness allowed them to continue playing when the score was 9: 9 made impossible in the fifth sentence.
On Tuesday, Otte and Rinderknech continued the game, after 3:57 hours the 17-year-old German was 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 7 (5: 7), 13:12 (7: 2 ) as the winner.
Against Murray on Center Court
Otte's opponent in the second round is Andy Murray: The Scot, who has already won Wimbledon twice, celebrated a successful comeback at his favorite tournament the day before with a win against number 24 seeded Georgian Nikolos Bassilashvili.
Murray had already announced the end of his career in 2019 after numerous operations, but then decided to continue playing tennis with an artificial hip.
The match takes place on Center Court.
For Jan-Lennard Struff and Philipp Kohlschreiber, the British Grand Slam is over again: Both had to cope with difficult openers, Struff failed in four sets to Daniil Medwedew, Kohlschreiber in five sets to Denis Shapovalov.
Wimbledon record winner Roger Federer, who is playing for his ninth title at the world's most important lawn tournament this year, also had to go over five sets.
Then the Swiss benefited from the fact that his French rival Adrian Mannarino had to retire due to an injury.
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