The grass season started this week in Stuttgart and Hertogenbosch with 23-year-old Lucas Pouille winning Stuttgart and 34-year-old Muller winning the second title of the year and his career. Grass court tennis is almost like a different sport at times, especially when you watch it so soon after the long rallies of the French Open. It’s a lot of smack-smack-smack – aces, unreturnable serves and three-shot-rallies. While the grass in Wimbledon has been slowed down, the rallies in tournaments such as Stuttgart and Hertogenbosch are still at break-neck speed compared to for example hard-court tournaments. This is likely why we …
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Mercedes Cup Stuttgart
After three eventful days at the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, I’m back home. It was my second year there and it’s a great tournament for you who want to get up and close to the players, especially if you stay in the official player hotel – the Maritim. It was nice to see Federer back after his injury timeout. Like I suspected beforehand he did look mighty rusty and I can’t remember seeing him missing so many, for him, easy shots. Especially backhand and serve seemed to be misfiring and in the match against young American Taylor Fritz he was …