Davis Cup player Oscar Otte celebrated a recently rare sense of achievement on the tennis tour. In Florence, the 29-year-old from Cologne turned his opening game against Marton Fucsovics from Hungary after losing the first set and won 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2.

After Wimbledon, the world number 55. had knee surgery and have only won one match since then. Otte is the only German participant in the 612,000 euro tournament in Florence. He now meets first seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime from Canada in the round of 16.