Wimbledon
Djokovic fails in Wimbledon
Defending champion Novak Djokovic is excreted in Wimbledon, completely surprisingly already in the third round. Angelique Kerber fights in the next round. Alexander Zverev is finally successful.
Sam Querrey (R) can’t believe his victory, Novak Djokovic takes his defeat taken
Defending champion Novak Djokovic is in Wimbledon, as early as in seven years at a Grand Slam tournament excreted. The world ranking First, and a protégé of Boris Becker lost his third-round match against American Sam Querrey with 6:7 (6:8), 1:6, 6:3 and 6:7 (5:7). The Match had been interrupted canceled on Friday due to rain, a day later, when the score was 0:2 sets from the point of view of Djokovic resumed, but three times. The three-time Wimbledon winner failed after three hours of total playing time.
Since the finals at the French Open 2015 Djokovic in the Grand Slam tournaments, had lost not a lot more. In the third round, one of the four major tournaments, he failed most recently in 2009, when he moved in Paris against Philipp Kohlschreiber of the Shorter. “It hurts a Grand to lose a Slam more than any other tournament,” said the dominant tennis player of the past few months. “It was a very successful year, but also very exhausting. Fortunately, I have a family and a life besides the Tennis.”
Kerber is playing for the quarter-final to enter
A friendly farewell: Kerber (l.) and Witthöft
In the rain Chaos of London defeated Grand-Slam-winner Angelique Kerber and her compatriot Carina Witthöft and are now fighting for a spot in the quarter-finals. In a gutklassigen third-round game of the German number one on Saturday was in the first round four Set points against, ranking the 21-year-old Witthöft, but still with 7:6 (13:11), and 6:1. In the second round Kerber will now face Misaki Doi. The Japanese prevented with the score 7:6 (7:1) and 6:3 against Anna-Lena Friedsam another German duel at the most famous Tennis tournament in the world.
Against Witthöft turned Kerber after a total of 1:37 hours to their first match ball. Once again the rain had disturbed the process. 2-0 for Kerber in the second set, the organizers sent to the professionals for a good two hours in the cabin, 4:1 yet another Time, only for a few minutes.
Kerber must now be on a Monday again. To Koi she also met with her fantastic run in Melbourne. In the first round, you stand against the 25-Year-old shortly before the marriage, she made the Australian Open Triumph. In the second sentence of the North German fought off five months ago with a match ball.
Lisicki missed the second round
Meanwhile, missed Sabine Lisicki to the last sixteen round. The finalist of the 2013 lost in the third round against the Kasachin Yaroslav Schwedowa with 6:7 (2:7) and 1:6. You failed, like in the last year, the third Grand Slam tournament of the Tennis season in the third round. Previously, the 26-Year-old had achieved – except in the case of her debut in 2008 – at least the quarter-finals.
Match in five attempts
Alexander Zverev is fighting against opponent Mikhail Juschni, and the continuous rain in Wimbledon
A game of patience over two days and five sets supernatant Alexander Zverev. On Saturday afternoon, the young German entered for the fifth Time the place to be second-round Match against former Top Ten player Mikhail Juschni from Russia to bring finally to an end. After only a six-ball switch of the 19-Year-old celebrated a 6:4, 3:6, 6:0, 4:6 and 6:2-success. As the only German Zverev in the third round. There, he gets on Sunday, the Chance for a Davis Cup rematch against Tomas Berdych from the Czech Republic. At the beginning of March Zverev celebrated against the top players of a thrilling debut for the German national Tennis team – but without a Happy ending.
For the first time in twelve years and only the fourth Time in the 139-year-old Wimbledon’s history will be played on the middle Sunday games on the “Holy grass”. However, the bad weather and the numerous threaded games forced the organizers.
ck/og (sid, dpa)