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Dennis Novak received an opening defeat at the ATP clay court tournament in Kitzbühel. The 27-year-old from Lower Austria, who was in the main draw thanks to a wild card, lost this Wednesday 6: 7 (6/8) 4: 6 to German qualifier Maximilian Marterer in the first round of the Generali Open, which is endowed with 400,335 euros.
The number two in Austria and the number 85 in the world rankings made up for an early break to 1: 3 in the first set against 337 in the ATP rankings with the rebreak at 4: 5, but Marterer used his third set ball in the tie-breaker. In the second round, the 25-year-old German served after a break to make it 3-2.
This means that in the absence of Dominic Thiem, who participated in the US Open in New York, Sebastian Ofner is just an Austrian at Gamsstadt in the singles round of 16. After a 6: 7 (5/7) 6: 4 7: 6 (7/4) win against Moldovan Radu Albot on Thursday, 24-year-old Styrian will face second-seeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman on Thursday . had a goodbye.
“Stupid mistakes” in the tie-break and “stupid break”
“I think it was a very good game, also from me. I had my chances, then some stupid mistakes in the tie-break, ”Novak explained after the match. Then he had a “really stupid break” in the second sentence.
For Novak, who reached the round of 16 in Kitzbühel last year, it is now important to keep working on concentration and focus. “I think the shots are pretty good. Just stay in shape and eliminate these concentration gaps, ”is his motto. His other tournament schedule includes a Masters 1000 performance in Rome. “I mentioned Rome, I still don’t know if I will go there. Then Hamburg and Paris. “
Since the resumption of tennis following the breakdown of the coronavirus, Novak has still not gone as he wanted: at the Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati, which moved to New York, he failed in the second qualifying round, at the US Open he lost a fight of five sets against the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
ATP 250 tournament in Kitzbühel
(Austria, 400,335 euros, sand)
