Tim Gentzsch beat Adrian Wazny 7-5, 6-7, 6-0 in Szczecin, closing the match with a bagel third set in which he broke three times and never faced a break point himself. Across the match he made seven breaks to Wazny's four and served six aces to three.
The opening set swung repeatedly: Wazny broke at 2-3 and again at 4-5, but Gentzsch answered at 4-4 and 5-5 before breaking once more to take it 7-5. The second set opened with three breaks in the first three games and a further Gentzsch break at 3-3, yet Wazny edged the tie-break; the turning point came immediately after, with Gentzsch breaking at 1-0, 3-0 and 5-0 in the decider.
The numbers behind it were on serve and return: Gentzsch landed 69% of first serves to Wazny's 56% and won 45 return points to 39. In the third set he took 8 of the 11 receiving points he contested while dropping just one point behind his own serve from 6/8 first serves.