Tennis player Tomáš Macháč was eliminated in the quarterfinals at the rain-marred tournament in Houston. At the premiere among the top eight at the ATP Tour event, the twenty-two-year-old Czech player was not enough against the German opponent Yannick Hanfmann and lost to him smoothly 2:6 and 1:6.
The two tennis players, who are separated by only four places in the top 100 of the ranking, completed the second match on Saturday due to a big time slip after persistent rains. And Macháč, after the previous victory twice 6:4 over home Marcos Giron, did not manage the duel. He only withstood the nine-year-old German for 65 minutes after losing serve twice in each set.
Hanfmann, who surprisingly knocked out the second-seeded Tommy Paul from the USA in the first match on Saturday (7:6, 6:2), helped himself to seven aces in the match between two players from the qualification. He let Macháče go for a single break point, which he parried at 1:3 in the first set.
Houston Men’s Tennis Tournament (clay, $718,245 endowment):
Singles – Quarter Finals:
Hanfmann (Germany) – Macháč (Czech Republic) 6:2, 6:1, Tiafoe (1-USA) – Kubler (6-Austria) 6:4, 6:4, Brouwer (Netherlands) – Wolf (5- USA) 6:3, 6:4, Etcheverry (8-Arg.) – Garín (Arg.) 6:1, 6:7 (2:7), 6:3.
