World Sport News

Routine tennis player Florian Mayer failed in the last round of his favourite Grand Slam in Wimbledon. The 34-year-old, who will end his career after the US Open in September, lost to Czech Jiri Vesely 6:7 (3:7), 4:6, 6:4, 1:6.

It was Mayer’s 13th defeat in the 15th game of his farewell tour in 2018.

Mayer, who was treated on the thumb of his right hand in the third set against Vesely, had reached the quarter-finals in Wimbledon in 2004 and 2012 and thus recorded the greatest Grand Slam successes of his career. At his twelfth start in the lawn Mecca of London, the man from Bayreuth broke for the fourth time.

Before the first games of the Zverev brothers Alexander (No. 4) and Mischa, two German tennis players are still qualified for the second round. The day before Philipp Kohlschreiber (Augsburg/No. 25) and Jan-Lennard Struff (Warstein) had won their first round matches, qualifier Yannick Maden (Stuttgart) retired, as Maximilian Marterer (Nuremberg) and Peter Gojowczyk (Munich) on Tuesday.