sk tennis

Last Saturday I was on a one-day-trip to Halle (Westfalen), Germany, to attend the semifinals of the ATP tournament Gerry Weber Open. Of course I made some pictures and videos.

Video of Novak Djokovic playing soccer tennis with his coaches:

After watching the practice sessions of Olivier Rochus & Novak Djokovic I watched the first singles semifinal at the Gerry Weber Stadion. It was the German battle between Tommy Haas and Philipp Kohlschreiber. Haas did a bad start into the match and lost the first set 2-6. Especially his serve was very poor. It continued in the second set. Kohlschreiber led 5-3 and served for the match but Haas catched the rebreak. From now on the match was tied. The second and third sets went into a tiebreak where Tommy Haas had better nerves. He won 2-6 7-6 7-6 in a very intensive match.

The second semifinal was world No. 4 Novak Djokovic vs. Belgian qualifier Olivier Rochus who surprised in the previous rounds. It was a very interesting match with a lot of long and high quality points. Djokovic had problems to control the match because the small Rochus had really fast legs and got nearly all balls. After winning the first set in tiebreak Djokovic took control of the match and won after hard work 7-6 6-4.

I didn’t watch the doubles semifinal of Kas/Kohlschreiber vs. Haas/Kohlmann.

Watch all 74 pictures and 8 videos from Halle.