With another demonstration of his current class and form, young star Lukas Prü…
With another demonstration of his current class and top form, young star Lukas Prüger erased an Uralt record from the previous millennium on Sunday evening, and set the best record for serially won HTT singles matches as the first player in HTT history to an impressive 30 victories. The 19-year-old, however, may even turn his current November Masters Series 1000 appearance at UTC La Ville into a sports-historical HTT weekend, as the season’s dominator from Schwechater TV is preparing to set another record with his possible seventh consecutive HTT tournament victory tomorrow, Tuesday. A report by C. L.
As the 6-time HTT seasonal tournament winner Lukas Prüger on Saturday evening in the first-round night session of the 22nd HTT World Championships, he was the winner. November-Masters-Series 1000 tournament against the new Slovakian November-HTT-250-Champion Pavol Cabada with a 6-0,6-3 canter victory had reached the last sixteen, the Urals record of single games won in series from the previous century had been set. 28 times in a row a tennis court after an HTT-single match was unbeaten to leave the tennis court after a HTT-single match, which was unbeaten in the last two years. The HTT legends of the previous millennium, Klaus Hofer and Claus Lippert, shared a best mark that seemed to be carved in stone and destined for eternity. Until, even 25 years later, a certain Lukas Prüger appeared on the scene and, with the most ingenious season and the form of his life, pulverized the Uralt record from the previous millennium.
Less than 24 hours later, yesterday at exactly 7:09 p. m., last Sunday, Prüger had won his match ball in his last sixteen-finals duel with superstrength-playing qualifier Lenny Wilmink to become the sole record holder. 6:2,6:2, the runners-up had reached his 29th place. Victory was celebrated in uninterrupted order in front of his brother’s eyes, and one hour after his record win, he also duped England’s number 1 Adam Goodsell in the quarter-finals of this year’s last HTT Masters Series 1000 tournament. That makes 30. For the seventh time in a row, Prüger was among the top 4 in a HTT event of the highest category.
To make the record-breaking weekend of November 2 perfect, the HTT French Open Champion is missing only two more victories to celebrate his seventh consecutive tournament win. In this way, Prüger would shake off the HTT-Altstars Hofer & Lippert, who also achieved the feat of winning six HTT tournaments in series in the last millennium. Hofer succeeded in doing so throughout the season 1994/1995, when he triumphed six times in series. Claus Lippert broke this record in 1999 with six consecutive HTT titles. Lukas Prüger celebrated his sixth tournament success in a row at the HTT-Erste Bank Open in the Stadthalle, title no. 7 tomorrow Tuesday would lift the 19-year-old to an unprecedented level in the HTT Open era. With Alexander Schager, Kevin Köck and Anton Würflingsdobler, however, three young men still have something against the only fighter record!