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 ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com www.mercedescup.de Martin Dagahs:
[email protected] @ATPWorldTour @MercedesCup #MercedesCup Press Room: +49 711 32095705 facebook.com/ATPWorldTour facebook.com/mercedescup 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 Bernard Tomic for the first time. In the second match, qualifier Mate Pavic of Croatia meets German wild card Alexander Zverev, who comes in a career-high No. 84 in the Emirates ATP Rankings. In the third match on, wild card Tommy Haas makes his ATP World Tour season debut against Mikhail Kukushkin, who won the previous meeting in Miami in March 2009. In the final match, top Pole Jerzy Janowicz looks for his second win this season against German qualifier Dustin Brown. On Mercedes Court, there are two seeds in action as No. 8 Viktor Troicki 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 Dominic Thiem plays German qualifier Mischa Zverev. In a first round doubles match postponed on Monday, Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and Rafael Nadal are fourth on.