What a start to the 31st TERRA WORTMANN OPEN! On Monday, three seeded players will be on the green grass in the OWL ARENA. The matches on Centre Court start at 12 noon. Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime will officially open the tournament. He will face the German Dominik Koepfer. Surprisingly, the score between the two is 1:0 in favour of the 30-year-old German. A chance for revenge for "FAA". But the locals are known to play particularly well in Halle.
Match number two will be contested by two outsiders: Austrian Sebastian Ofner and Chinese player Zhizhen Zhang. Later in the day, former world number 1 Daniil Medvedev will try to find his rhythm quickly on grass. He meets the Portuguese Nuno Borges. It is the second meeting between the two. Medvedev won the first one this year at the Australian Open. The 28-year-old reached the final of the TERRA WORTMANN OPEN in 2022.
His opponent back then was Hubert Hurkacz from Poland. He will also be in action on Monday. His opponent is Italian Flavio Cobolli. The two have never played each other on a tennis court before. The clear favourite is the powerful Hurkacz.
Miomir Kecmanovic and Lorenzo Sonego serve first on Court 1. At the end of the day, the defending champion and the crowd favourite will play doubles. Alexander Bublik, winner in 2023, will play doubles with Frenchman Arthur Fils. Germany's number one Alexander Zverev will then face the German pairing of Yannick Hanfmann/Dominik Koepfer with Andrey Rublev.
Monday is traditionally the tournament's Kid's Day. The stars can look forward to loud support from the young fans.
