We still have exactly one week to wait before the most prestigious tennis tournament of all begins in Wimbledon. But who gets to take part will be decided in the next few days, namely in the qualifiers. On Monday, three German men will be challenged, while Angelique Kerber will be preparing for the Grand Slam at her home tournament in Bad Homburg. We’ll keep you up to date throughout the day in our tennis tracker.
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18:57 – MATCH LOSS KERBER – With 5:7 3:6 there is nothing to get for Angelique. Diana Shnaider shows her best side and wins easily.
18:00 – The score in Bad Homburg is currently 3:4 from Angelique Kerber’s point of view, the player from Kiel hasn’t shown good body language so far, does she have to concede the first set as the favourite?
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To the match centre: Angelique Kerber vs. Diana Shnaider
17:16 – MATCH LOSS HASSAN – Now everything is coming together for the German qualifiers. Benjamin Hassan also has to say goodbye. After a 1:2 (7:6,2:6,4:6) against James Duckworth, the dream of Wimbledon is over for this year.
17:13 – MATCH LOSS KORPATSCH – Tamara Korpatsch at least gets the chance to go through to the second round via the tie-break in the second set, but Haddad Maia is stronger here too. In the end, the Brazilian won 2:0 (6:1, 7:6). Shortly before winning the match, Tamara Korpatsch was heroic on the way, the Hamburg player saw that a spectator was suffering from heatstroke and ran over with water. The match was interrupted for several minutes as a result and the two opponents had to play again.
15:39 – MATCH LOSS SQUIRE – After Rudi Molleker had ensured a strong start for Germany in the Wimbledon qualifier, Henri Squire unfortunately couldn’t quite keep up. After a good start, the up-and-coming German won the first set 6:4 against Vit Kopriva from the Czech Republic, but then Kopriva, who is ranked almost 60 places higher in the world rankings, switched up a gear and turned the match around.
To the match centre: Vit Kopriva vs. Henri Squire
14:48 – MATCH WIN NIEMEIER- What a surprise in Bad Homburg! Jule Niemeier can win against top star Maria Sakkari. In a fight over three sets, the DTB scion wins 2:1 (2:6,6:2,7:6) and can thus continue to hope for the title at the grass court tournament.
Match centre: Maria Sakkari vs. Jule Niemeier
13:17 – MATCH WIN MOLLEKER – Rudi Molleker has survived the first qualifying round at Wimbledon. The 23-year-old confidently defeated Bulgarian Adrian Andreev 6-3, 6-4 in two sets and made a strong impression, especially in the first round. The Oranienburger did not make a single double fault and hit significantly more winners than his opponent.
Molleker, who was born in the Ukraine, goes on to play Alex Bolt from Australia, who prevailed against Nicolas Kicker from Switzerland just a few minutes later.
To the match centre: Rudi Molleker vs. Adrian Andreev
9:59 a.m. – Italian Jannik Sinner has extended his lead in the world rankings by winning the grass court tournament in Halle. The 22-year-old is now 1500 points ahead of Novak Djokovic. The Serbian, who is currently injured, climbed back to second place because French Open winner Carlos Alcaraz retired early at the Queen’s Club in London. Last year, the Spaniard had won the preparatory tournament for Wimbledon.
Alexander Zverev (Hamburg) remains in fourth place behind the top trio. The Olympic champion was defeated in the semi-finals in Halle by Hubert Hurkacz from Poland, who in turn moved up two places and is now ranked seventh. After the French Open in Paris, Sinner became the first Italian ever to top the world rankings.
There were no changes in the women’s top 10 one week before the start of the Grand Slam highlight in Wimbledon (1 to 14 July), with Jessica Pegula (USA), who won the title in Berlin on Sunday, remaining in fifth place. Finalist Anna Kalinskaya jumped seven places to 17th, after Jannik Sinner’s girlfriend missed five match points against Pegula and thus her first tournament win on the WTA Tour.
Outlook for the tennis day
Preview Wimbledon qualifiers – The matches at the legendary All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club start at midday. Firstly, Rudi Molleker from Oranienburg will face Adrian Andreev from Bulgaria in an attempt to qualify for the main draw in London for the first time. He is well ahead of his opponent from southern Europe in the world rankings, and the German with Ukrainian roots has also won the only previous duel in 2022.
To the match centre: Rudi Molleker vs. Adrian Andreev
Henri Squire will also enter the action later and will be looking to build on his great form from Paris, where he made it through to the second round of the main draw as a qualifier. There he lost to top 15 player Felix Auger-Aliassime, but the Duisburg player was able to take a lot of positives with him and also showed good form at the tournament in Heilbronn. He now faces Vit Kopriva from the Czech Republic.
To the match centre: Vit Kopriva vs. Henri Squire
Last but not least, Benjamin Hassan faces one of the toughest possible tasks in qualifying: James Duckworth from Australia is in the top 75 of the world rankings and is therefore the clear favourite against the Saarlander with parents from Lebanon. Duckworth recently reached the last 16 in Halle, where he was beaten by eventual finalist Hubert Hurkacz; his aim is to reach the main draw at Wimbledon.
To the match centre: James Duckworth vs. Benjamin Hassan
Preview WTA Bad Homburg – Good mood and great anticipation! Tournament ambassador Angelique Kerber and Caroline Wozniacki have even more in common these days than they already do. The two former world number ones have known each other since they were very young and are close friends – and the duo are currently eagerly awaiting their opening matches at the Bad Homburg Open.
“I’m just looking forward to the start. But I’m already really impressed with how the tournament is constantly evolving and how we improve every year,” said Angelique Kerber, who will be celebrating her Kurpark comeback in 2023 after her maternity leave. The three-time Grand Slam winner will face Diana Shnaider, number 49 in the WTA rankings, in a left-handed duel starting at 4 pm.
Angelique Kerber has of course already trained with Caroline Wozniacki, who will challenge last year’s Wimbledon semi-finalist Elina Svitolina in a real first-round thriller, on the Spielbank Bad Homburg Centre Court this week. And played cards with the Dane in the Players Lounge.
