ATP: Struff in St.

Three days after his decisive victory in the Davis Cup play-off against Portugal, Jan-Lennard Struff is at the ATP tournament in St. Gallen.Petersburg entered the last sixteen.

Despite the change from sandy to hard court, the 27-year-old from Warstein defeated the Croatian Borna Coric 3:6,6:2,6:4.In the relegation duel in Portugal, Struff had won the decisive third point for the German team by beating Joao Sousa and thus made the class retention perfect.

In addition to Struff, Philipp Kohlschreiber will also be represented at the 1.064 million dollar hard court tournament.Qualifier Daniel Masur lost in the first round against Ricardas Berankis from Lithuania, who will face Kohlschreiber in the last sixteen.Struff will play Thomas Fabbiano from Italy in the next round.

Alexander Zverev from Hamburg won last year’s St. Peter’s Cup in St. Gallen.Petersburg his first of six titles so far on the tour, this year he is not at the start.

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