The Halle Open, also known as the Gerry Webber Open, is an ATP500 event currently underway in Halle, Germany. World No. 3 Roger Federer is the top seed at the grass court tournament. It is known to be the Swiss Maestro’s favoured surface – he has won seven of his seventeen Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon.
Despite this, however, the Swiss was involved in a shock loss to Dominic Thiem at the semi-finals of the Mercedes Cup, where Thiem would go on to defeat Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the finals to win his first ever grass court title.
Results from Halle:
Semi finals
Alexander Zverev bt Roger Federer 7-6, 5-7, 6-3
Florian Mayer bt Dominic Thiem 6-3, 6-4
Quarter finals
Roger Federer bt David Goffin 6-1, 7-6
Alexander Zverev bt Marcos Baghdatis 7-6, 6-3
Dominic Thiem bt Philipp Kohlschreiber Walkover
Florian Mayer bt Andreas Seppi 7-6, 6-3
Round 2
Roger Federer bt Malek Jaziri 6-3, 7-5
Philipp Kohlschreiber bt Ivo Karlovic 6-7,6-4, 7-5
Dominic Thiem bt Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-4, 6-1
David Goffin bt Sergiy Stakhovsky 4-6, 7-5, 2-0 (ret)
Round 1
Men’s Singles
Kei Nishikori bt Lucas Pouille 6-7, 6-1, 6-4
Benjamin Becker bt Ernests Gulbis 7-5, 6-3
Sergiy Stakhovsky bt Denis Kudla 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
David Goffin bt Borna Coric 7-6, 6-7, 6-4
Andreas Seppi bt David Ferrer 6-3, 6-4
Roger Federer bt Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4, 7-6
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