Pavol Cabada continues to be the benchmark on HTT-250 level. The 31 year old Slovakian prolonged….
Pavol Cabada continues to be the benchmark on HTT-250 level. The 31-year-old Slovakian prolonged his time in the final of the 22nd round on Wednesday evening. November-HTT-250 Tournament at UTC La Ville, and celebrated his fourth consecutive HTT-250 victory in the UTC La Ville with a 6:3,6:4 victory over 17-year-old Josip Franjicevic in 1:26 hours. In addition, Cabada has been unbeaten on a 250-match level for 18 matches and, with his fourth HTT career title, is back in the top 100 of the HTT entry ranking. A report by C. L.
35 points scored by himself, 35 points were credited with opposing mistakes, and the result was exactly 70 points that Pavol Cabada scored in the final of the November BTT 250 tournament on Wednesday evening against 14 years younger Josip Franjicevic, with 60 participants in the finals. Slovakia’s number 1 hobby tennis tournament, which recently tried major tournaments and did not hold a 250-man tournament until this weekend in 2017, got under the roof of UTC La Ville on this first weekend in November, and during the five matches for the first season finale and fourth career title, it also regained the spirit of play that made it possible to win the 250 Against Jan Ohanessi, Andrea Steiner and in the semi-final against Andreas Tolunay, the man from Nizna stayed without any set loss, only in the quarter-finals was youngster Diego Laporta able to pass the HTT-250er-King the water.
In the final, Cabada certainly benefited from a bit more routine and a dream start against Franjicevic, who was in a final for the first time and was extremely nervous. The experienced player scored two early breaks and after only 18 minutes he was already leading 4:0. Although this was not a decision in terms of results, Cabada had managed to take the strong youngster out of the sails with the lightning start and ensured that the 17-year-old newcomer to the final game could not get into a dangerous rush. From then on, Franjicevic was busy trying to make up for lost ground. The Mucic conqueror took up the challenge, won three games in a row and meanwhile came up to 3:4. Cabada, however, responded in the style of a seasoned veteran, served a strong service game for the 5-3 home, and then took the serve away from the overtaxed opponent for 6-3 in the subsequent game.
In the second round Franjicevic would have had the chance to turn the game around. Cabada left three balls unused at 1-1 and 40-0, before his opponent took the lead with a break of 2-1. The 17-year-old was once again 3:2 in the lead with another break, but the young star, who plays both forehand and backhand, did not want to succeed in confirming the break. Cabada, on the other hand, was able to stabilize in service, and Franjicevic had to use his own serve to prevent the loss of the match at 5:4 lead. A difficult situation for a 17-year-old in his first HTT finale, and after the youngster had fought off the first match point with an arrow-straight service winner, he had a problem with Matchball No. 2 with his forehand. Thus Cabada had his 18th birthday. HTT-250 single win in series, the fourth HTT-250 title in a row fixed, and at the 40th HTT-250 World Cup, the winner was able to win the second HTT-250 title in a row. Tournament start of his career the return to the top 100 of the HTT-Entry-List made clear.