WTA: Linz: When the Center Court becomes a catwalk

Tennis, the world’s number one women’s sport, is becoming increasingly attractive.In the truest sense of the word.Since Sunday, visitors to the WTA tournament “Upper Austria Ladies Linz” have been admiring not only high-level matches, but also a number of players who could also make a successful career on the catwalk.

The Linz women’s tennis classic has also become known as the perfect springboard for players who are only a few steps away from the tennis throne.Best examples from recent times: Angelique Kerber, Karolina Pliskova, Garbine Muguruza and Simona Halep were four players in Linz, who then became world number one.

Remember: Tournament director Sandra Reichel has managed to hire 17 players over the past 26 years, who have made it to the number one in the world in their career.These are: Aranxta Sanchez Vicario, Ana Ivanovic, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Scharapowa, Jelena Jankovic, Dinara Safina, Amelie Mauresmo, Serena Williams, Jennifer Capriati, Justine Henin, Lindsay Davenport, Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber, Karolina Pl

The fact that last year four top ten players came to Linz last year and no one this year is not a cause for complaint for tournament ambassador Barbara Schett.On the contrary:”You shouldn’t always get stuck on Williams and Sharapova.Here in Linz, we have a large number of young players with world-class potential.We’ve been watching top-notch games for days.I can only recommend to every tennis fan to watch this power generation live at Upper Austria Ladies Linz.”

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On Thursday there were especially many male tennis fans at the games of the Croatian Jana Fett, the Romanian Sorana Cirstea (also her Russian opponent Natalia Vikhlyantseva is in favour of the fans) as well as the German trio Carina Witthöft, Anna Zaja and Nicole Geuer.The day before, the game of Croatian Ajla Tomljanovic was in the spotlight.

“It’s quite possible that tennis fans will see the next top-one player at the premiere of Upper Austria Ladies Linz in 2017,”says Sandra Reichel.