in place ofying philip cole schreiber, who withdrew due to stomach problems. -- he was playing in place of philip cole schreiber -- kholschreiber. set, a double fault making it 6-4. the german took control of the situation, and the second set went 6-2. he kept it up in the third set, 6-3. a victory for germany. brazil gets relegated to the second tier. >> and more sports news also on our website, we.de. -- dw.de. we are back with more news at the top of the hour. please stay with us. u.s. secretary of state john kerry said syrian president bashar al-assad could avoid military retaliation for the alleged use of chemical weapons if he turned over his chemical weapons stop files to the international community. kerry at hisohn word and adopted the proposal a few hours later. syrianall on the leadership not only to put chemical weapons storage facilities underafterwards. accepta quickly moved to the proposal and avoid a us-led attack. >> i declare that serial welcomes the russian proposal. of of concern for the lives syrian people and for the security of our country. shift came asc u.s. pres