Tennis - Tennis player Niemeier misses round of 16 in Berlin
Tennis player Jule Niemeier came close to surprising at the top-seeded grass-court tournament in Berlin. The 24-year-old from Dortmund lost her first round match against last year's finalist Donna Vekic from Croatia on Tuesday, despite a strong start with scores of 6:1, 1:6, 3:6.
On Tuesday afternoon, three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber enters the action at the WTA-500 tournament in Grunewald. The 36-year-old faces her favorite surface, grass, in her first official match since her 18-month baby break against the Czech Linda Noskova.
A total of eight players from the Top Ten are participating in the 922,573 US-Dollar prize money warm-up tournament for Wimbledon.
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Jule Niemeier, a tennis player from Dortmund, Germany, showed promising play in the top-seeded grass-court tournament in Berlin, even though she lost her opening match to Donna Vekic, last year's finalist. In contrast, three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber, also from Germany, will be competing in the WTA-500 tournament in Grunewald, which offers a lawn surface that Kerber favors. Incidentally, both tournaments are taking place in Germany as part of the warm-up for Wimbledon, where eight players from the Top Ten are also participating.
