Philipp Kohlschreiber is among the last eight at the ATP World Tour 250 tournament in Munich: The triple champion defeated Mischa Zverev in two sets and now faces either Roberto Bautista Agut or Casper Ruud.
By Jens Huiber from Munich
Philipp Kohlschreiber had to deal with only one Zverev at the beginning of his match. According to the schedule, this was Mischa, who had also duly appeared on the MTTC Iphitos Center Court for his match in the round of 16. Meanwhile, Brother Alexander Jr. and Father Alexander Sr. practiced with a Hitting Partner on the Show Court. Against a good backdrop, by the way, especially younger ones.
Kohlschreiber, on the other hand, has long been a German tennis classic, especially in Munich, where the Augsburg native has already won the title three times. The prognosis for a fourth success on the Isar is favourable, against Mischa Zverev Kohlschreiber had no problems as he did against Ivo Karlovic: 6-2 and 6-2 after a little more than an hour the clear result in favour of the German number two was in the end, Kohlschreiber is waiting for the winner of the match between Roberto Bautista Agut and Casper Ruud in the quarter-finals.
Almost at the same time Tim Pütz and Jan-Lennard Struff, both Davis Cup colleagues of Kohlschreiber, had continued their meanwhile uncanny winning streak on Court 1, beating the two experienced players Philipp Oswald and Max Mirnyi with 7:5 and 7:5. Only victories in the German and French Bundesliga, plus three in no defeat in the Davis Cup: This is Struff/Pütz’s record.
Meanwhile, Philipp Kohlschreiber showed off his entire arsenal of fabulous tennis strokes and clearly won the only second duel between the two experienced players. First Kohlschreiber and Mischa Zverev had faced each other, in the hall in Rotterdam almost exactly ten years ago. At that time Zverev had prevailed.
Kohlschreiber is thus the fourth German to make it to the quarter-finals, and there will definitely be a local hero in the semi-finals: after all, the tournament tableau arranged an appointment between Alexander Zverev and Jan-Lennard Struff on Friday. Maximilian Martere can then try Marton Fucsovics.
Kohlschreiber, by the way, found a hair in the soup despite his sovereign lecture: He bid farewell directly from the Center Court to one of the training grounds at the MTTC Iphitos – and worked on his serve.