Jan-Lennard Struff

MELBOURNE - Serbian tennis player Miomir Kecmanovic is through to the Australian Open third round after a 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5), 1-6, 7-6 (11-9) victory over German Jan-Lennard Struff in Melbourne on Thursday.

Kecmanovic, who won after three hours and 21 minutes of play, is now 1-2 head-to-head against Struff.

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Jan-Lennard Struff thought he was done at the Madrid Open when he lost to Aslan Karatsev in the final round of qualifying last week.

Champion Stefanos Tsitsipas crashed out of the Monte Carlo Masters when he slumped to a 6-2 6-4 defeat against American Taylor Fritz in the quarter-finals on Friday.

Greek second seed Tsitsipas, who triumphed at the Monte Carlo Country Club in the last two editions, was never in the mix against Fritz, who reached the last four of a Masters event for the first time.

After Hugo Dellien in the first round, Djokovic defeated German tennis player Jan-Lennard Struff in the second round - 6: 4, 6: 3.
The match of the second round at the tennis tournament in Tokyo lasted an hour and 15 minutes.

Greek second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas had to fight hard before booking his place in the Sofia Open quarter-finals, securing a 7-6(5) 6-4 win over feisty German Jan-Lennard Struff on Thursday having enjoyed the backing of the Bulgarian crowd.

"For the first time I play as if I was at home," said 20-year-old Tsitsipas, who reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open last month.

ROTTERDAM - Serbian Viktor Troicki has got off to a winning start at the Rotterdam tennis tournament by beating Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff 1-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 on Tuesday.

Comprehensively outplayed in the first set, Troicki came from behind to win the match after a much better performance.

Tanjug file photo, T. Valic

DOHA - Serbia's Novak Djokovic has got off to a successful start in 2017 after beating Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff (7-6 (7-1), 6-3) at the Doha ATP tournament Monday.

In a bid to reach the quarter-finals, title defender Djokovic - who won after an hour and a half of play - will face the winner of the match between Horacio Zeballos of Argentina and Florian Meyer of Germany.

Romanian Florin Mergea and Indian Rohan Bopanna defeated Czech Lukas Rosol and Ukrainian Sergey Stakhovsky 2-6, 6-4, 10-8 on Tuesday to qualify to the doubles quarterfinals of the 1,574,640 euros ATP tournament of Halle (Germany).

VIENNA - Serbia's Viktor Troicki has reached the semi-finals of the ATP tournament in Vienna after beating Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (2-7), 6-2 on Friday.

Troicki, the current world number 127, is well on course to return to the tennis elite after clearing another hurdle by beating the extremely persevering Brazilian, who only gave in in the third set.

GSTAAD - Serbia's Viktor Troicki is through to the quarterfinals of the ATP tournament in Gstaad after defeating Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-4 in their second-round match on Thursday.

Next up for Troicki is a first-time clash with either Spaniard Fernando Verdasco or German Jan-Lennard Struff for a spot in the semifinals.

The Swiss Open prize fund totals EUR 485,760.