10 THINGS TO WATCH IN HAMBURG

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1 GERMAN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS: PREVIEW & DAY 1 MEDIA NOTES Monday, July 24, 2017 Hamburg Sports and Entertainment GmbH Hamburg, Germany July 24-30, 2017 Draw: S-32, D-16 Prize Money: 1,499,940 Surface: Clay ATP World Tour Info Tournament Info ATP PR & Marketing ATPWorldTour.com German-Open-Hamburg.de Martin Dagahs: Press Room: THINGS TO WATCH IN HAMBURG 1) 500 Time: This is the eighth ATP World Tour 500 level tournament of the season and the top four seeds are Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Pablo Cuevas, Karen Khachanov and Gilles Simon. This is the fourth ATP World Tour tournament of the year in Germany (Munich, Stuttgart, Halle). 2) Former Champions: The lone former champion in the field is 2011 winner Simon. Cuevas (2016), David Ferrer (2014), Federico Delbonis (2013) and Tommy Haas (2012) are former finalists. 3) German Title Hopes: The last German champion in Hamburg was current tournament director Michael Stich in There are eight Germans in the draw, led by Philipp Kohlschreiber, Florian Mayer, wild cards Daniel Altmaier, Haas and Maximilian Marterer, and Jan-Lennard Struff and qualifiers Rudolf Molleker and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe. 4) Haas Anniversary: It was 20 years ago that 39-year-old Haas made his hometown tournament debut, reaching the SFs (l. to Mantilla). He has an record with a runner-up in 2012 (l. to Monaco). His last appearance was in 2013 when he reached the QFs (l. to Fognini). 5) Ramos-Vinolas Top Seed: Ramos-Vinolas is the top seed in an ATP World Tour tournament for the first time in his career. The Spaniard is making his seventh Hamburg visit (5-6 record) with his best result the QFs in He is a two-time finalist this year (Sao Paulo, ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo) and 22 of his 27 wins in 2017 have come on clay. 6) Ferrer Breaks Drought: Ferrer, who has a 17-8 record in Hamburg with a runner-up in 2014, comes in after winning the title in Bastad, his first ATP crown since Vienna in October ) One to Watch: Last year s finalist Cuevas has a 10-4 record in Hamburg, reaching the SFs in his 2009 main draw debut and the QFs in Of his 18 wins this season, 14 have come on clay. 8) #NextGenATP Stars: Russians Khachanov and Andrey Rublev, who earned his first ATP World Tour title in Umag, are making their Hamburg debut. Khachanov picked up his career-best 20th win of the season in Bastad where he reached the QFs (l. to Dolgopolov). 9) Kohli Looks to Breakthrough: Kohlschreiber is making his 13th Hamburg appearance (12-12 record) and he is looking to get past the SFs (2014) for the first time. The 33-year-old German has won five of his seven ATP World Tour titles in Germany (Munich three times, Halle, Duesseldorf). 10) Doubles Draw: The seeded teams are Croats Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic, Pablo Cuevas and Marc Lopez, Julio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos, Marcin Matkowski and Nenad Zimonjic, who is attempting to win his 700th career doubles match.

2 Page 2 of 6 WHO TO WATCH THIS WEEK SINGLES SEED PLAYER W-L BEST TOURNAMENT FINISH 1 Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) Quarter-finalist 2 Pablo Cuevas (URU) Finalist 3 Karen Khachanov (RUS) 0-0 Debuting 4 Gilles Simon (FRA) Champion 5 Benoit Paire (FRA) Quarter-finalist 6 Diego Schwartzman (ARG) , 2015 First round 7 Fernando Verdasco (ESP) Semi-finalist 8 David Ferrer (ESP) Finalist QUALIFIERS (4) Federico Delbonis (ARG) Damir Dzumhur (BIH) Rudolf Molleker (GER) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) DOUBLES OLDEST PLAYER Tommy Haas (GER) 39 years, 3 months WILD CARDS (3) Daniel Altmaier (GER) Tommy Haas (GER) Maximilian Marterer (GER) YOUNGEST PLAYER Daniel Altmaier (GER) 18 years, 10 months TOP COUNTRY BREAKDOWN Germany 8, Argentina 6, Russia 5, Spain 3 SEED TEAM W-L BEST TOURNAMENT FINISH 1 Ivan Dodig Quarter-finalist Mate Pavic First round 2 Pablo Cuevas Quarter-finalist Marc Lopez Champion 3 Julio Peralta 0-0 Debuting Horacio Zeballos First round 4 Marcin Matkowski Champion Nenad Zimonjic Champion EMIRATES ATP RANKING POINTS AND PRIZE MONEY Gerry Weber Open W F SF QF R16 R32 Singles Ranking Points Singles Prize Money ( ) 323, ,420 79,715 40,540 21,055 11,105 Doubles Ranking Points Doubles Prize Money ( ) 97,290 47,630 23,890 12,260 6,

3 Page 3 of 6 PAST FINALISTS SINGLES (since 2009) YEAR CHAMPION FINALIST SCORE 2016 Martin Klizan (SVK) Pablo Cuevas (URU) 6-1, Rafael Nadal (ESP) Fabio Fognini (ITA) Leonardo Mayer (ARG) David Ferrer (ESP) 6-7(3) (4) 2013 Fabio Fognini (ITA) Federico Delbonis (ARG) (8) Juan Monaco (ARG) Tommy Haas (GER) Gilles Simon (FRA) Nicolas Almagro (ESP) Andrey Golubev (KAZ) Jurgen Melzer (AUT) Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) BOLD: Player in 2017 German Open singles draw. DOUBLES (since 2008) YEAR CHAMPION FINALIST SCORE 2016 Henri Kontinen/John Peers Daniel Nestor/Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Jamie Murray/John Peers Juan Sebastian Cabal/Robert Farah [10-8] 2014 Marin Draganja/Florin Mergea Alexander Peya/Bruno Soares Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski Alexander Peya/Bruno Soares [10-8] 2012 David Marrero/Fernando Verdasco Rogerio Dutra Silva/ Daniel Munoz de la Nava 2011 Oliver Marach/Alexander Peya Frantisek Cermak/Filip Polasek Marc Lopez/David Marrero Jeremy Chardy/Paul Henri Mathieu [10-8] 2009 Simon Aspelin/Paul Hanley Marcelo Melo/Filip Polasek Daniel Nestor/Nenad Zimonjic Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan [10-8] BOLD: Player in 2017 German Open doubles draw. FEDEX ATP HEAD2HEADS: MONDAY 1ST-ROUND SINGLES MATCHES CENTER COURT Horacio Zeballos (ARG) vs [WC] Daniel Altmaier (GER) Zeballos 2017 Summary SF: Barcelona (l. to Nadal); QF: Munich (l. to Pella) YTD W-L: YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 1 Date of Birth: April 27, 1985 Emirates ATP Ranking: 57 Hamburg W-L (Best Result): 0-2 (2012, R) Advanced to Grand Slam 3R and 4R for 1st time at Roland Garros (d. Karlovic and Goffin, l. to Thiem) Reached Barcelona SF (l. to Nadal) -- best finish at an ATP event since winning 2013 Vina del Mar title (d. Nadal)

4 Page 4 of 6 Let 2-set lead slip away in Australian Open 1R (l. to Karlovic in 5th after 5 hours, 14 minutes). Match featured longest 5th set in event history (42 games) and most games overall since TBs were instituted in 1972 (84 games) Defeated defending champion Kohlschreiber to reach Munich QF (l. to Pella 76 in 3rd) Also reached 2R at 6 events, including Doha (d. F. Mayer 76 in 3rd after saving 2 MPs, l. to Djokovic) Celebrated 300th singles win on ATP Challenger Tour at 2017 Lyon, FRA (d. E. Ymer, l. to Lamasine in QF) Captured 4th ATP doubles title w/peralta and 7th overall at Houston (d. Bryan/Bryan and Brown/Tiafoe) Upset defending champion Lopez/Lopez en route to Roland Garros doubles QF w/peralta (l. to Cabal/Farah) Retired in Quito doubles final w/peralta vs Cerretani/Oswald (neck) and Braunschweig, GER Challenger 1R (back) Altmaier 2017 Summary QF: Antalya (l. to Sugita) YTD W-L: 2-2 Date of Birth: September 12, 1998 Emirates ATP Ranking: 218 Hamburg W-L (Best Result): 0-0 (Debuting) As qualifier, reached first ATP World Tour QF at Antalya (d. Estrella Burgos, d. Ilhan, l. to Sugita) Qualified and made ATP World Tour debut at Geneva (l. to Querrey in 1R) Achieved career-high No. 249 in Emirates ATP Rankings on June 12 Advanced to 1st ATP Challenger Tour SF at Bangkok, THA as Q (l. to eventual champion Tipsarevic) Won 4th and 5th ITF Futures Circuit titles respectively at Bellevue, SUI (d. Puetz) and Doha, QAT (d. Escoffier) Added Futures doubles title at Bellevue, SUI w/netuschil (d. Neuchrist/Pel) Marco Cecchinato (ITA) vs Florian Mayer (GER) Cecchinato 2017 Summary YTD W-L: 1-4 Date of Birth: September 30, 1992 Emirates ATP Ranking: 104 Hamburg W-L (Best Result): 0-0 (Main draw debut) Last week, reached 2R at an ATP level event for the first time this year in Umag (l. to Dodig) Won the Santa Marghertia Di Pula Futures event in Italy in March, followed by a title at the Challenger event in Rome in May (d. Kovalik) Also reached the finals at Challenger events in Todi, Italy (l. to Delbonis) and Ostrava, Czech Republic (l. to Travaglia) Mayer 2017 Summary QF: Halle (l. to Federer) YTD W-L: 5-13 YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 2 Date of Birth: October 5, 1983 Emirates ATP Ranking: 101 Hamburg W-L (Best Result): (2010 SF) Advanced to Halle QF as defending champion (d. Paire and Pouille, l. to eventual champion Federer) Snapped 8-match losing streak by beating Granollers in ATP Masters 1000 Madrid 1R (l. to Goffin in 2R) Ended 9-match Grand Slam losing streak by reaching Wimbledon 2R (d. Troicki, l. to Cilic) Retired in Budapest 1R and withdrew from Dubai and Munich (illness). Also withdrew from Montpellier (back). [WC] Maximilian Marterer (GER) vs [4] Gilles Simon (FRA) Marterer 2017 Summary YTD W-L: 0-6 Date of Birth: June 15, 1995

5 Page 5 of 6 Emirates ATP Ranking: 121 Hamburg W-L (Best Result): 0-0 (Main Draw Debut) Achieved career-high No. 122 in Emirates ATP Rankings on June 19 Qualified at Sofia (l. to Darcis in 1R) and Budapest (l. to Klizan in 1R) Fell to 0-8 lifetime on ATP World Tour with 1R losses as WC at Munich (l. to Chung) and Stuttgart (l. to Johnson) Advanced to 4th ATP Challenger Tour final at Cherbourg, FRA (l. to Bourgue) Also reached Challenger SFs at Bangkok, THA (l. to Kavcic) and Quanzhou, CHN (l. to Berrettini) Simon 2017 Summary QF: Marseille (l. to Tsonga); Lyon (l. to Berdych) YTD W-L: YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 12 Date of Birth: December 27, 1984 Emirates ATP Ranking: 39 Hamburg W-L (Best Result): 10-7 (2011 Champion) Reached QFs at Marseille (l. to Tsonga) and Lyon (l. to Berdych) Advanced to Australian Open 3R (d. Mmoh and Dutra Silva, l. to Raonic) Saved 2 MPs to beat countryman Monfils (0) in ATP Masters 1000 Madrid 1R (l. to Lopez in 2R) Fell to No. 2 Djokovic in ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo 2R after serving for match at 54 in 3rd Dropped to No. 36 in Emirates ATP Rankings on June lowest since No. 37 on September 29, 2014 Helped France to 4-1 win over Japan in Davis Cup 1R (d. Nishioka) Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) vs Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) Donskoy Leads Roland Garros (France) Clay R128 Evgeny Donskoy 7-6(7) (2) Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (Brazil) Hard R64 Evgeny Donskoy Other meeting: 12 Loughborough CH (Great Britain) Hard F Evgeny Donskoy Struff 2017 Summary QF: Marrakech (l. to Kohlschreiber); Munich (l. to Zverev) YTD W-L: Date of Birth: April 25, 1990 Emirates ATP Ranking: 54 Hamburg W-L (Best Result): 1-3 (2013 2R) Achieved career-high No. 44 in Emirates ATP Rankings on May 8 Qualified at ATP Masters 1000 events in Monte-Carlo (l. to Schwartzman in 3R) and Rome (l. to Querrey in 2R) Advanced to Marrakech QF (l. to Kohlschreiber), Munich QF (l. to A. Zverev) and Miami 3R (l. to Delbonis) Suffering 10-match Grand Slam losing streak after 1R losses at Aus. Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon Squandered 1 MP in Stuttgart 2R vs eventual champion Pouille, then lost to Frenchman again in Halle 1R Canberra, AUS Challenger singles runner-up (l. to Sela) and doubles champion w/begemann (d. Berlocq/Molteni) Withdrew from Montpellier due to illness Donskoy 2017 Summary QF: Dubai (l. to Pouille) YTD W-L: 3-8 Date of Birth: May 9, 1990 Emirates ATP Ranking: 98 Hamburg W-L (Best Result): 0-0 (Debuting) Qualified at Rotterdam (l. to Herbert in 2R), Marseille (l. to Gombos in 1R) and Dubai (l. to Pouille in QF). Earned biggest win vs Federer at Dubai after saving 3 MPs and trailing 5-2 in 2nd-set TB, 5-2 in 3rd set and 5-1 in 3rd-set TB. One week following Dubai, captured 10th ATP Challenger Tour singles title at Zhuhai, CHN (d. Fabbiano) Also won Challenger doubles title at Rennes, FRA w/elgin (d. Knowle/Marray 11-9 in Match TB)

6 Page 6 of 6 COURT M1 [Q] Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) vs [Q] Damir Dzumhur (BIH) [6] Diego Schwartzman (ARG) vs [PR] Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) Schwartzman Leads Roland Garros (France) Clay R128 Diego Schwartzman (5) [5] Benoit Paire (FRA) vs [PR] Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) FEDEX ATP HEAD2HEADS: REMAINING 1ST-ROUND SINGLES MATCHES [1] Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) vs [LL] Leonardo Mayer (ARG) Ramos-Vinolas Leads Santiago (Chile) Clay R32 Albert Ramos-Vinolas Buenos Aires (Argentina) Clay R16 Albert Ramos-Vinolas (3) 13 Umag (Croatia) Clay R32 Leonardo Mayer Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Clay R32 Albert Ramos-Vinolas Sao Paulo (Brazil) Clay R16 Leonardo Mayer Buenos Aires (Argentina) Clay R16 Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-7(4) 7-6(3) 1-0 ret Jiri Vesely (CZE) vs [7] Fernando Verdasco (ESP) [3] Karen Khachanov (RUS) vs [Q] Rudolf Molleker (GER) Rogerio Dutra Silva (BRA) vs Aljaz Bedene (GBR) Other meetings: 10 Barletta Q (Italy) Clay -- Aljaz Bedene Irving CH (U.S.A.) Hard R32 Aljaz Bedene First Tour Level Meeting Carlos Berlocq (ARG) vs [Q] Federico Delbonis (ARG) Berlocq Leads Vina del Mar (Chile) Clay QF Carlos Berlocq Other meeting: 10 Milan CH (Italy) Clay R16 Carlos Berlocq Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO) vs [8] David Ferrer (ESP) [WC] Tommy Haas (GER) vs Nicolas Kicker (ARG) Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) vs [SE] Andrey Rublev (RUS) Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) vs [2] Pablo Cuevas (URU) Kuznetsov Leads Wimbledon (Great Britain) Grass R128 Andrey Kuznetsov