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Does the name Jule Niemeier mean anything to you? Caught … But you don’t necessarily have to know the 21-year-old. The German is only number 167 in the tennis world rankings and has not yet won a WTA tournament. Did Bencic know Niemeier before today? We do not know it.
But what we do know: Now Bencic knows Niemeier, because the Swiss (number 5 in the seeding list) has a hard time against the local qualifier in the 1st round of the WTA grass tournament in Berlin.
Over 2 hours of hard work
The negative about your first round appearance? She loses the first set 4: 6. The positive: she still returns the game, wins the further sets 6: 4 and 7: 5. For Bencic, her first appearance since her second round out at the French Open ends with a happy ending after two hours of hard work.
In the next round, Bencic will meet the winner of the match between Petra Martic (Kro, world number 25) and Asia Muhammad (USA, 36).