Tennis: Wawrinka, Tsonga, Simon at Moselle Open
Stan Wawrinka will be in tough on enemy soil as he hasn’t played at Metz, France since 2007, and has never made it past the first round. Tsonga and Simon have each won twice over the past five years. Last year’s champion David Goffin has been too busy leading Belgium to the Davis Cup finals to defend his crown. With reigning champion David Goffin not in the field this year, Wawrinka’s toughest competition will come from local heroes Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon. They’ve split four of the last five titles between them.You can always count on the Moselle Open to bring in several of the top seeds on the ATP Tour. Led by the No. 4-ranked player in the world, Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka we hve to include Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. These are easily the top three favorites going into Wednesday’s action.
World’s No. 4 Stan Wawrinka is the top seed at this year’s Moselle Open, but he’s in a crowded race with France’s No. 10 Gilles Simon and No. 17 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Notable by his absence is last year’s champion David Goffin, who’s been busy leading his native Belgium to their first Davis Cup final since 1904. Simon (2010, 2013) and Tsonga (2011, 2012) had split the last four Moselle Opens between them, meeting in the finals in 2013, but neither made it that far last year. Wawrinka hasn’t appeared at Metz since 2007, when he lost to Tsonga in the first round.
Trailing the top three favorites is Philipp Kohlschreiber, the best player in Germany today and No. 33 overall on the ATP rankings. Kohlschreiber reached the quarterfinals at Metz in 2014, where he lost to fellow German Jan-Lennard Struff after retiring down 5-0 in the first set. Struff is not participating this year.
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