Lukas Prüger has crowned the best season of his career so far with another highlight. The….
Lukas Prüger has crowned the best season of his career so far with another highlight. As already announced last week, the 19-year-old from Lower Austria climbs for the first time ever the leading position in the Hobby Tennis Tour Computer Ranking, which has been held since 1990, and this Tuesday evening replaces Vladimir Vukicevic, the Serbian who was last 19 weeks and 81 weeks at the top. Prüger is only 23rd at all. Player of the Open era, who makes the jump to the HTT number 1 and thus also top seeded at the 28th season starting next Saturday. 2nd edition of the HTT tour finals at UTC La Ville. A report by C. L.
A fabulous tennis season was crowned on Tuesday evening. Young star Lukas Prüger from Schwechater TC is promoted in the latest and already 1,417. Edition of the HTT-Computer-Ranking as reported a week ago reported on the number 1 hobby tennis tour. The 19-year-old, who paused last weekend at the November HTTT-500 tournament, also benefited from the fact that the previous leader Vladimir Vukicevic, last year’s winner of the HTT 2016 Tour finals, lost 1,500 points, and despite his current success at the last HTT-500 season’s tournament last Tuesday, he took the place.
However, the switch from Vukicevic to Prüger at the top of the HTT-Entry-List is well deserved. Irrespective of the outcome of the upcoming finals, it was the season of Lukas Prüger, who dominated the scene from May to November in an almost frightening manner. The 19-year-old impressed his colleagues with a breathtaking performance and a series of successes that was second to none. Only stuttering and never getting past the quarter-finals at the beginning of the year, Prüger set out in May for a sensational six-month period, in which he appeared successfully in all the prestigious tournaments and gradually demoted his opponents to extras. Prüger triumphed at the HTT-French-Open and thus ended the triumphal march of the international HTT stars, who have won six major titles in series since the HTT-US Open 2015. The rewards for a final gala performance were 500 euros, a brand-new TV set from tournament sponsor Nabo and the first-time entry into the top ten. At the OTC Open, which was endowed with 1000 euros, Prüger also scored the 300 Euro winner’s cheque with his fifth season title, before he indulged in the ATP feeling at the HTT-Erste Bank Open 500 with his final draw against Kevin Köck at the Next Gen Court, where he crowned himself the winner of the Stadthalle with an unbelievable performance. At the end of an unprecedented series of victories in HTT’s history, there were 31 consecutive victories before he had to concede three top-class sets in the final of the November Master Series 1000 tournament Kevin Köck, missing another record with a possible seventh consecutive title.
It was an outstanding season for the 19-year-old, especially considering that in February of this year, Prüger was ranked 128th in the HTT computer rankings. The competition, which bowed to the young star’s performance, is also aware of this:”He definitely deserves to be the new number one. I will grant him the same, but I will try to fight back at the HTT-Tour-Finals. I would love to have a final with Luke. But as I said, he has won so much this year, and that’s why he is right at the top of the rankings,”said Vladimir Vukicevic, who has been replaced as” one “.” If you play such a season, you have to be rewarded with the corresponding result at the end of the season, and that’s how it is with Lukas. Even though he now benefits from the ranking arithmetic, it was foreseeable that he would eventually make it to first place,”stated HTT-US Open winner Patrick Wiesmühler. I’m very happy about the jump to 1st place, especially because it’s really hard to get to the top of the HTT with these many good players. But I’ve played a strong season, and being the number 1 now has a tremendous significance for me,”said Lukas Prüger, delighted to be the best HTT player in the last 52 weeks after Tuesday night’s news.