Bad news came on Wednesday afternoon from HTT top ten star Mathias Wagner. The 26-year-old…
Bad news came on Wednesday afternoon from HTT top ten star Mathias Wagner. The 26 year old from Lower Austria, who is currently in position no. 10 and looks very promising in the race for a starting position at the 28th place. At the beginning of the week, a knee injury that had not yet been diagnosed in detail, was the result of a serious injury to the knee. The Neo-Donaufelder slipped on cobblestone pavement when crossing a street in Vienna, possibly causing a torn cruciate ligament. However, the severity of his injury is still completely unclear, and so Wagner has to continue to fear from a specialist before the examination today. Whether the tenth place finish for the Tour Finals is out of order is still open, but Wagner cannot participate in the November Masters Series 1000 tournament, which starts this Friday.
Mathias Wagner has made a name for himself two and a half weeks before the opening of the conference on 25 March. In the HTT Tour Final, which begins on November 2017, a knee injury of undetermined severity was inflicted. Cobblestone pavement while crossing a street in Vienna became the 26 year old’s doom. Wagner has already cancelled his start at the last HTT Masters Series 1000 tournament of the year at UTC La Ville starting tomorrow, Friday. After his visit to a knee specialist in Vienna this afternoon, he decides whether he will be able to compete in the big season finale of the top 8 at the end of the month, or whether the season for the ranking list tenth is over prematurely and whether he may be injured for several months.
Wagner threatens to miss out on the HTT Tour finals in 2017, and that would add yet another tragic chapter to the 26-year-old’s relationship with the prestigious season finale. Wagner did not go beyond the role of point supplier in his Masters debut in 2014, and in 2016 he missed the qualifying round to shine as a moderator for his colleagues, and now – with great prospects for the future. We were already looking forward to the happy end.