ATP: Jan-Lennard Struff also in Vienna quarter-finals

Davis Cup player Jan-Lennard Struff has entered the quarter-finals at the ATP tournament in Vienna as the third German player. The 27-year-old from Warstein defeated Albert Ramos Vinolas in a competitive match 6:7 (5), 6:2,7:6 (1).

After 2:34 hours, the number 51 in the world turned his first match ball against the 29th ranked Spaniard. Struff’s next opponent is the Briton Kyle Edmund (ATP No. 63). The latter had prevailed against Austrian qualifier Dennis Novak in three tiebreak sets.

Struff had recently lost to Ramos-Vinolas in the third round of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Shanghai, following the German’s defeat of this year’s US Open Finalist Kevin Anderson.

Already on Wednesday Germany’s top player Alexander Zverev (Hamburg/No. 1) and Augsburg’s Philipp Kohlschreiber qualified for the round of the last eight players. Zverev’s opponent will be determined on Thursday evening between the eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Moscow winner Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia-Herzegovina). Kohlschreiber will be dealing with Argentinean Diego Schwartzman on Friday in the Wiener Stadthalle.

Here the single tableau in Vienna