The Spanish tennis player Roberto Bautista will play in the two exhibition tournaments to be held next week in Berlin, As confirmed by the organizers this Friday, once Alexander Zverev and Nick Kyrgios canceled their participation.
Bautista, who fell to Dominic Thiem on Thursday in the friendly tournament in Kitzbuhel, will sign up for the double date in Berlin. Also, Italian Matteo Berrettini will play the first tournament on the grass of the Steffi Graf stadium, located in the west of the German capital, starting Monday July 13, completing the final picture.
For his part, the Russian Karen Khachanov will do it in the second tournament starting on Friday 17 on the hard runway of a hangar at the former Tempelhof airport. The three tennis players are among the top 15 in the world ranking. The box of six is led by number three in the world, the Austrian Dominic Thiem.
The format includes a male and a female box. In the event female will be among the participants the two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic, the Dutch Kiki Bertens and the Ukrainian Jelina Switolina.
The German duo Julia Görges and Andrea Petkovic will also participate. At the tournament there will only be two quarterfinals in each, the winners They will face the two seeds in the semifinals. The total the prize in Berlin is 200,000 euros.