BERLIN, June 16. /TASS/. Russian tennis star Daniil Medvedev has started the 2026 ATP Halle Open tennis tournament in Germany with a confident straight-set win over Tomas Martin Etcheverry from Argentina.
In a match that lasted one hour and 28 minutes, the 4th-seeded Medvedev, who is playing under a neutral status at the tournament, outplayed his unseeded Argentinian opponent Etcheverry 6-3; 6-4 and is now set to face off in the next round against French Terence Atmane.
Medvedev, 30, is currently 8th in the ATP Rankings. He spent sixteen weeks as the world’s number one player in 2022. He previously won the 2021 US Open and holds 23 ATP titles. He won five of those 23 titles in 2023. Also, in 2021, he won the Davis Cup as well as the ATP Cup playing for the Russian national team.
The 2026 Halle Open is a men's tennis tournament that is played on outdoor grass courts and its 33rd edition this year is part of the ATP 500 series. Matches are played at the OWL Arena in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between June 15 and 21, 2026. The tournament’s reigning champion is Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan. Yevgeny Kafelnikov is the only Russian to win this tournament and he did it thrice (in 1997, 1998, 2002).
