{"id":433165,"date":"2025-09-18T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433165\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:09:10","slug":"he-was-called-a-dark-horse-to-win-wimbledon-three-years-ago-but-is-now-the-world-number-991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/433165\/","title":{"rendered":"He was called a ‘dark horse’ to win Wimbledon three years ago but is now the world number 991"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Things can change very quickly in tennis, which is something that this ATP player knows all about.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The year 2022 was a monumental year in the sport, starting off with Rafael Nadal\u2019s heroic effort to win the Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It also saw the emergence of another Spanish talent, as Carlos Alcaraz won his first major title at the US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While these two players remain as household names, another ATP<\/a> player who was seen as a dark horse for Wimbledon<\/a> has suffered a dramatic fall since then.<\/p>\n

\"OscarPhoto by Sebastian Widmann\/Getty Images for BMW Oscar Otte: The ATP player who was called a \u2018dark horse\u2019 for Wimbledon in 2022<\/p>\n

That player is German Oscar Otte, who really impressed during the 2022 grass court season.<\/p>\n

Otte began the grass court season that year as the world number 61, and had only reached one ATP semifinal before.<\/p>\n

That all changed very quickly, as Otte beat the likes of Denis Shapovalov<\/a> and Karen Khachanov<\/a> to reach back-to-back grass court semifinals in Stuttgart and Halle.<\/p>\n

This enabled Otte to secure a late seeded spot at Wimbledon that year, and former British tennis player turned commentator Nick Lester named the German as a dark horse for The Championships.<\/p>\n

Lester told Wimbledon.com<\/a> in 2022, \u201cThe German has been in great form over the summer with back-to-back grass court semi-finals and his serve and volley game is not what many players are used to seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Otte somewhat lived up to that expectation, as he reached the third round of Wimbledon for the first time before losing to sixth seed Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite this defeat, it was a hugely successful grass court season for Otte, but he was unable to continue his momentum from this run.<\/p>\n

What has happened to Oscar Otte since then?<\/p>\n

After reaching the third round of Wimbledon in 2022, Otte\u2019s life has been taken over by constant injury troubles.<\/p>\n

Otte underwent an arthroscopy on the inner meniscus of his left knee straight after Wimbledon that year, and he has only won one more Grand Slam match since then.<\/p>\n

That win came at Wimbledon the following year, but once again The Championships resulted in Otte requiring knee surgery.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Otte there was another surgery to come, as he revealed at the end of last year that he had undergone a procedure on his right foot.<\/p>\n

Otte has not played an ATP Tour main draw match since the Halle Open<\/a> in 2024, and has only played lower-level ITF matches in 2025.<\/p>\n

As a result, the former world number 36 is now ranked all the way down at world number 991, with Otte now looking far from the player who was called a Wimbledon dark horse in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things can change very quickly in tennis, which is something that this ATP player knows all about. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[4294,147217,79,1068,16,15,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-433165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-oscar-otte","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115224285793170411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}