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MERCEDESCUP: DAY 2 MEDIA NOTES Tuesday, June 9, 2015

TC Weissenhof, Stuttgart, Germany | June 8 – 14, 2015 Draw: S-28, D-16 | Prize Money: €642,070 | Surface: Grass

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NINE GERMANS HIGHLIGHT BUSY DAY TWO SCHEDULE

 DAY 2 PREVIEW: Nine Germans are on Tuesday’s schedule at the MercedesCup, with four leading the way on Center Court. Overall there are 11 singles and three doubles matches on the menu. In the opening match, Jan-Lennard Struff takes on No. 5 seed/top Aussie for the first time. In the second match, qualifier Mate Pavic of Croatia meets German wild card , who comes in a career-high No. 84 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. In the third match on, wild card makes his ATP World Tour season debut against , who won the previous meeting in Miami in March 2009. In the final match, top Pole looks for his second win this season against German qualifier . On Mercedes Court, there are two seeds in action as No. 8 of Serbia meets 18-year-old Croat Borna Coric, who comes in a career-high No. 41 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. In the next match, No. 7 plays German qualifier . In a first round doubles match postponed on Monday, Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and are fourth on.

 HAAS RETURNS: Wild card and former World No. 2 Tommy Haas returns to action on the ATP World Tour for the first time this season after undergoing right shoulder surgery on June 17, 2014. The 37-year-old native takes on Mikhail Kukushkin of . Haas last played at Roland Garros a year ago, (l. to Zopp in 1R). Haas has a 7-5 career record at the MercedesCup and he reached the final in 1999 (l. to M. Norman in five sets).

 GERMAN RANKINGS: Seven (in bold) of the Top 10 Germans in the Emirates ATP Rankings are playing in Stuttgart this week : No. 29 No. 116 No. 43 No. 141 No. 84 Alexander Zverev No. 148 No. 104 Dustin Brown No. 154 No. 105 Jan-Lennard Struff No. 181

Note: The last German to win the title in Stuttgart was in 1991

 TEENAGERS IN ACTION: The youngest players in the draw, Borna Coric and Alexander Zverev (both 18), have made breakthroughs in the Emirates ATP Rankings this year. Both are in first round action on Tuesday. Coric has jumped from No. 91 at the end of last year to No. 41 while Zverev has climbed from No.137 to No 84. Another teenager, 19-year-old wild card Maximillan Marterer, makes his ATP World Tour debut against Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer. Marterer has climbed over 100 ranking positions this season (462 on Jan. 12 to 344), winning back-to-back Futures titles on home soil in January. He also was runner-up in another Futures event.

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DAY 2 FEDEX ATP HEAD 2 HEADS – In Order of Play by Court

Centre Court

Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) vs (5) Bernard Tomic (AUS) First Meeting

Struff FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: YTD W-L: 5-14 YTD Titles: 0 Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: April 25, 1990 Emirates ATP Ranking: 105 Stuttgart W-L (Best Result): 0-1 (1R – 2014)

Tomic FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: SF: Delray Beach (l Young); QF(5): Brisbane (l Nishikori); Sydney (l Muller); Memphis (l Young); Acapulco (l Ferrer); ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells (W/O vs Djokovic) YTD W-L: 22-13 YTD Titles: 0 Career Titles: 2 Date of Birth: October 21, 1992 Emirates ATP Ranking: 24 Stuttgart W-L (Best Result): 0-1 (2R, bye – 2012)

(Q) Mate Pavic (CRO) vs (WC) Alexander Zverev (GER) First Meeting

Pavic FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: YTD W-L: 0-0 YTD Titles: 0/Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: July 4, 1993 Emirates ATP Ranking: 404 Stuttgart W-L (Best Result): First Appearance

Zverev FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: YTD W-L: 2-5 YTD Titles: 0/Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: April 20, 1997 Emirates ATP Ranking: 84 (Career-high) Stuttgart W-L (Best Result): 0-1 (1R – 2014)

(WC) Tommy Haas (GER) vs Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) Kukushkin Leads 1-0 09 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Miami (U.S.A.) Hard R128 Mikhail Kukushkin 6-4 6-4

Haas FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: YTD W-L: 0-0 YTD Titles: 0 Career Titles: 15 Date of Birth: April 3, 1978 Emirates ATP Ranking: N/A Stuttgart W-L (Best Result): 7-5 (Finalist – 1999)

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Kukushkin FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: F: Sydney (l Troicki) YTD W-L: 11-13 YTD Titles: 0/Career Titles: 1 Date of Birth: December 26, 1987 Emirates ATP Ranking: 59 Stuttgart W-L (Best Result): First Appearance

Jerzy Janowicz (POL) vs (Q) Dustin Brown (GER) Janowicz Leads 1-0 15 Montpellier (France) Hard R32 Jerzy Janowicz 2-6 7-6(1) 7-5 Other meetings: 11 Bath CH (Great Britain) Hard R32 Dustin Brown 6-3 6-3 12 Bath CH (Great Britain) Hard R16 Dustin Brown 4-6 6-3 7-6(5)

Janowicz FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: F: Montpellier (l Gasquet) YTD W-L: 12-10 YTD Titles: 0/Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: November 13, 1990 Emirates ATP Ranking: 50 Stuttgart W-L (Best Result): First Appearance

Brown FastFacts: 2015 Highlights: QF: Doha (l Ferrer) YTD W-L: 4-9 YTD Titles: 0/Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: December 8, 1984 Emirates ATP Ranking: 104 Stuttgart W-L (Best Result): 2-2 (QF – 2012)

Mercedes Court (8) Viktor Troicki (SRB) vs Borna Coric (CRO) Troicki Leads 1-0 15 SRB vs. CRO WG 1st RD (Serbia) Hard RR Viktor Troicki 4-6 1-6 6-3 6-2 6-1

(7) Dominic Thiem (AUT) vs (Q) Mischa Zverev (GER) First Meeting

Benjamin Becker (GER) vs (ITA) First ATP Meeting Other meeting: 12 Ortisei CH (Italy) Hard F Benjamin Becker 6-1 6-4

Court 1 Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) vs (WC) (GER) First Meeting

Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) vs Lukas Rosol (CZE) Tied 1-1 12 Zagreb (Croatia) Hard R32 4-6 6-3 6-3 12 London / Queen's Club (Great Britain) Grass R32 Lukas Rosol 6-3 4-6 6-4

Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) vs (AUS) First Meeting

(LL) Matthias Bachinger (GER) vs (Q) Peter Gojowczyk (GER) First ATP Meeting Other meeting: 09 Karlsruhe CH (Germany) Clay R16 Matthias Bachinger 5-7 6-4 7-6(4)