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Munich (AP) - The ATP tournament in Munich has to do without one of its young stars and Alexander Zverev's strongest rivals.
Jannik Sinner from Italy canceled his start at the clay court event next week for scheduling reasons because he had reached the semifinals at the Masters in Barcelona.
The world number 19.
had won an ATP event in Melbourne at the start of the season and was recently in the final of the Miami Masters.
In Barcelona he was eliminated in the semi-finals against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas on Saturday.
In addition to the South Tyrolean, the originally planned Marton Fucsovics (Hungary) and Daniel Evans (Great Britain) are also missing from the list of players at the BMW Open in Munich.
Behind Zverev, the Norwegian Casper Ruud is number two on the seeding list in the 250 event on Aumeisterweg.
The Russian Aslan Karazew follows on number three in front of Filip Krajinovic from Serbia.
The top four seeded players have byes in the first round.
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As the draw on Saturday showed, there are at least six Germans in the main field of the BMW Open.
The three-time winner Philipp Kohlschreiber enters with a wildcard and meets his teammate Dominik Koepfer in the first round.
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