After Roland Garros, the world felt ball village focused on the pitch season. In particular, Halle Open is the tournament more interested in the presence of big names like Roger Federer, Daniil Medvedev or Alexander Zverev.
However, despite having just passed 2 rounds, Halle Open had to say goodbye to all three names above. After Medvedev was eliminated from the opening round, Federer failed in the second round before his 20 -year -old junior, recently, Zverev had to end his journey in Germany.
In the second round, Zverev's opponent is Ugo Humbert, the player is ranked 31th in the world. The two players brought the audience on Arena a very attractive match, stretching through 3 sets. After nearly 2 hours, unexpectedly happened when the 6th -class star in the world was a loser.
In Set 1, Zverev and Humbert created a dramatic chase. At game 12, the two players drew 6-6 and was forced to enter a series of tie-breaks to determine the victory. At this time, Humbert was a better player and an easy 7-4 victory.
Set 2, Zverev seemed to wake up. The excellent German player won the break in game 2 and quickly took the lead 3-0. In the victory, he won 3 more games and closed set 2 with a 6-3 victory, thereby balancing the score 1-1.
However, to Set 3, the game was changed again. Zverev showed signs of exhaustion and was led by Humbert until 1-4. Over the rest of the time, the world ranked 6th in the world could not make a surprise and had to accept the racket with a score of 3-6.
In the end, Zverev lost 1-2 and followed Medvedev as well as Federer to stop early at this year's Halle Open. This is clearly a bad momentum of the German tennis player for Wimbledon, the Grand Slam award is about to start at the end of June.
