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Marcos Baghdatis

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Marcos Baghdatis
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2017 Highlights

2017 Highlights

Marcos Celebrates 31st Birthday Despite Halle Defeat

Friday, 17 June, 2016

Marcos celebrated his 31st birthday on Friday at the Gerry Weber Open, despite falling to Alexander Zverev 7-6(9), 6-3.

 

The quarter-final defeat to the German teen marked the end of a stellar week for Marcos on the grass of Halle. He opened with a Top 10 upset of fourth seed Tomas Berdych, which was followed by a straight-sets defeat of home hope Dustin Brown. 

 

On Friday, he struck more winners (19) than unforced errors (18) during the 91-minute battle, but was unable to earn a break chance. Marcos had five set points in the first set tiebreak, but Zverev took control in seeing off all five and eventually clinching the set at 11-9. It was just Marcos' second tiebreak lost this year (8-2 record). In the second set, 38th-ranked Zverev captured his lone break of the match for 3-1, en route to victory.

 

Marcos, who was appearing in his fourth ATP World Tour quarter-final of the year, will next travel to Nottingham for the Aegon Open Nottingham. He was a semi-finalist there last year and is seeded ninth next week. Having received a first round bye, Marcos opens against either Denis Kudla or Evgeny Donskoy. Other seeds in his section include No. 2 Pablo Cuevas and No. 5 Sam Querrey.