Spectator invasion on the schauinsland-reisen court. As there was no more play on Centre Court and the very interesting doubles match between Alexander Zverev and his partner Marcelo Melo against second seeds Simone Bolelli/Andrea Vavassori (Italy) was scheduled for the second-largest court in the complex, the fans flocked to the court, which holds a good 3,500 spectators. And there were no empty seats.
However, the fans of the German top player were not allowed to cheer in the end. Zverev/Melo missed the surprise by the narrowest of margins, losing 6:7 and 5:7 to the defending champions Bolelli/Vavassori. In the first set, both teams had a few chances to break, with the Italians even having a set point when leading 6:5. However, it went into a tie-break, which Bolelli/Vavassori won 7:4. In the second set, Zverev/Melo missed the break to make it 5:3, the Italians stayed in the set and took their opponents' serve to make it 6:5. Simone Bolelli served for the match and made it 7:5. Bolelli and Vavassori will play again on Wednesday at the 32nd TERRA WORTMANN OPEN against the Americans Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow.
Tuesday was not a good day for young star Joao Fonseca. Just two hours after his defeat in the singles, the 18-year-old Brazilian and Petros Tsitsipas, younger brother of Greek star Stefanos Tsitsipas, lost 4:6, 4:6 to the Portuguese-Austrian combination Francisco Cabral/Lucas Miedler in the doubles competition.
The qualifiers Cabral/Miedler will now face the fourth seeded duo Sadio Doumbia/Fabien Reboul in the quarter-finals. The French duo won round one against Daniil Medvedev/Andrey Rublev in a very close match 6:7, 7:6 and 11:9 in a match tie-break.
