Sinner's first opponent as World No. 1 in Halle is...
p a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jannik-sinner/s0ag/overview'Jannik Sinner/a’s life as No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings will start with a first-round clash against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tallon-griekspoor/gj37/overview'Tallon Griekspoor/a at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/halle/500/overview'Terra Wortmann Open/a. /p
p The 22-year-old Italian will be wary of his first grass-court opponent of the year at the ATP 500 in Halle. Griekspoor won a tour-level title on grass in ‘s-Hertogenbosch last year, and the Dutchman was the only player to take a set off Sinner during his Miami title run in March. /p
p Yet Sinner will still enter the match with a 4-0 Lexus ATP Head2Head series lead against Griekspoor. Should he pass his opening test on the German grass, the 13-time tour-level champion would take on a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/fabian-marozsan/m0ci/overview'Fabian Marozsan/a or a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/roman-safiullin/sx50/overview'Roman Safiullin/a. Sixth seed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/stefanos-tsitsipas/te51/overview'Stefanos Tsitsipas/a is a potential quarter-final opponent for Sinner, while a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/daniil-medvedev/mm58/overview'Daniil Medvedev/a and defending champion a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexander-bublik/bk92/overview'Alexander Bublik/a are potential semi-final opponents. /p
blockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"A sweet welcome for the new No.1 in Halle ????a href="https://twitter.com/ATPHalle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@ATPHalle/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TerraWortmannOpen?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#TerraWortmannOpen/a a href="https://t.co/k1EFdJrSXu"pic.twitter.com/k1EFdJrSXu/a/pmdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) a href="https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1801276186531631312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"June 13, 2024/a/blockquote script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/script
p Tsitsipas opens his campaign against home wild card a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/henri-squire/s0ak/overview'Henri Squire/a. The third-seeded Medvedev, a finalist in Halle in 2022, plays a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nuno-borges/bt72/overview'Nuno Borges/a first, with Bublik starting his title defence against a qualifier. /p
p In the bottom half of the draw, home favourite a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexander-zverev/z355/overview'Alexander Zverev/a also faces a qualifier as he looks to bounce back from his a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/roland-garros/520/overview'Roland Garros/a championship-match defeat to a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/carlos-alcaraz/a0e2/overview'Carlos Alcaraz/a. Zverev, who reached back-to-back Halle finals in 2016 and 2017, could play a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/felix-auger-aliassime/ag37/overview'Felix Auger-Aliassime/a in the quarter-finals if both players progress that far. /p
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p A stacked third quarter of the draw features fourth seed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/andrey-rublev/re44/overview'Andrey Rublev/a, 2022 champion a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/hubert-hurkacz/hb71/overview'Hubert Hurkacz/a, and former Top 10 star a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/matteo-berrettini/bk40/overview'Matteo Berrettini/a. Competing as the fifth seed, Hurkacz will take on a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/flavio-cobolli/c0e9/overview'Flavio Cobolli/a in the first round, with #NextGenATP Brazilian a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/joao-fonseca/f0fv/overview'Joao Fonseca/a a potential second-round opponent. /p
p Rublev begins his week against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/marcos-giron/gc88/overview'Marcos Giron/a, with Berrettini or a qualifier awaiting in the second round. The 28-year-old Berrettini has won three of his eight ATP Tour crowns on grass, and on Sunday will play for another title at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/stuttgart/321/overview'BOSS OPEN/a in Stuttgart, where he plays a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jack-draper/d0co/overview'Jack Draper/a in the championship match. /p
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