Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany, ATP 500

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DATE: June 13 - June 19, 2016
SURFACE: Grass
PRIZE MONEY: €1,700,610
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Roger Federer

Seeds:

1 Roger Federer
2 Kei Nishikori
3 Dominic Thiem
4 Tomas Berdych
5 David Goffin
6 David Ferrer
7 Viktor Troicki
8 Philipp Kohlschreiber

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The Tournament:

The GERRY WEBER OPEN is one of seven grass-court events on the calendar, re-categorised as an ATP World Tour 500 tournament from 2015. Held since 1993, the event is played on four outdoor grass courts and is a part of the ATP World Tour 500 series on the ATP Tour schedule. The event has been upgraded as of 2015 from a 250 series to a 500 series tournament.

The Centre Court (the Gerry Weber Stadion) has 12,300 seats and a retractable roof which can be closed in 88 seconds so that tennis games can continue with a closed roof when it begins to rain.

The Players:

No.1 seed Roger Federer has dominated this tournament in recent times, winning eight titles. He is joined in Halle by Kei Nishikori, Toms Berdych and Dominic Thiem to head up a strong field.



About Halle

Halle (Saale)is a city in the southern part of the German state Saxony-Anhalt with a population of 232,000

The city is an economic and educational center. The University of Halle-Wittenberg is the largest university in Saxony-Anhalt and one of the oldest universities in Germany, and a nurturing ground for the local startup ecosystem. Together with Leipzig, Halle is at the heart of the Central German Metropolitan Region.

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Tourism Guide:

 

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The draw for Halle

 

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Some tasty first rounders:

Coric v Goffin
Zverev v Troicki
Pouille v Nishikori

are the ones that stand out for me.

 

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Federer bidding for his ninth title in Halle, draws wildcard Jan-Lennard Struff in the opening round.

 

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Nishikori beat Pouille

 

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Results from the Halle Open Men's Singles Round 1 matches on Monday

Andreas Seppi (Italy) beat 6-David Ferrer (Spain) 6-3 6-4
Benjamin Becker (Germany) beat Ernests Gulbis (Latvia) 7-5 6-3
Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukraine) beat Denis Kudla (U.S.) 7-5 4-6 6-3
5-David Goffin (Belgium) beat Borna Coric (Croatia) 7-6(5) 6-7(3) 6-4
2-Kei Nishikori (Japan) beat Lucas Pouille (France) 6-7(5) 6-1 6-4

 

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Day One Highlights

 

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[Carol]

Watching the replay of Nishi-Pouille match. The roof is on and the noise of the rain is awful, not even it can't hear the sound of the balls. And Nishi needed the trainer call, it's not a good sign even that he won

 

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Goffin beat Coric, but it was a tight 3. Nice for Coric, who is still a teenager, to hang with a very trending player.

 

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it's over for Fritz

 

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it's over for Fritz

Bummer. But at least he went 3. Berdych's woes continue, as Baggy gets him in straights. And Tomas was up a break in a good bit of the 2nd, then lost in a TB, with a lot of UFEs.

 

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Goffin beat Coric, but it was a tight 3. Nice for Coric, who is still a teenager, to hang with a very trending player.

That was a frustrating match to watch Moxie. Coric has the skills to be an offensive player, but feels safer ceding the baseline and playing further back. Goffin was not his usual sharp self, but he took advantage of the court position throughout most of the match. Credit to Coric that at times he did try to play up, but he has a lot of work to do.

 

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That was a frustrating match to watch Moxie. Coric has the skills to be an offensive player, but feels safer ceding the baseline and playing further back. Goffin was not his usual sharp self, but he took advantage of the court position throughout most of the match. Credit to Coric that at times he did try to play up, but he has a lot of work to do.

Thanks for that, EG. I only had just noticed the score, but didn't see the match.

 

[Carol]

Berdych is getting worse and worse