Tennis pro Oscar Otte clearly missed the round of 16 at the grass court classic in Wimbledon. The 28-year-old from Cologne lost to the young star Carlos Alcaraz 3:6, 1:6, 2:6 in the third round and received a lesson from the Spaniard at times.
After just 98 minutes, the 19-year-old converted his first match point. “I don’t know what was going on. But it was definitely nothing today,” Otte said of a “match to forget”. “I didn’t make it difficult for him at all, that’s why he was able to break free.”
This eliminated the last of seven German tennis players in the men’s competition. In the absence of injured Olympic champion Alexander Zverev, Otte was the German number one seed in the men’s draw at Wimbledon and the first time in his career at a Grand Slam tournament.
Alcaraz had much more trouble in his five-set win over Warstein’s Jan-Lennard Struff, but is slowly playing himself into top form on the grass surface, which is unfamiliar to him. “In the end he rolled over, I didn’t know what to do,” Otte said. “He was already playing well. It would have been difficult if I had played my best tennis. But this way I made it clearly too easy for him.”
The Spaniard Alcaraz will meet the Italian Jannik Sinner in the round of 16. After that, it could come to a possible duel with the number one seed Novak Djokovic from Serbia.
