Vukicevic defending champion after HTT-US-Open-Revanche already in semifinals

HTT superstar Vladimir Vukicevic became the first player to have a Tickai in the night from Monday to Tuesday.

HTT superstar Vladimir Vukicevic was the first player to receive a ticket to the semi-finals of the 28th World Cup on Monday night. HTT tour finals edition in UTC La Ville solved. The Serbian defending champion preliminaries in Group B preliminaries and a new edition of this year’s HTT-US Open finals won against team Donaufeld-Star Patrick Wiesmühler after a hard fight and 1:47 hours of play in three sets with 4:6,6:3,6:3,6:3, and is thus already ahead of the final third matchday on Wednesday and his last preliminaries against Lands. For the defeated HTT-US Open winner Patrick Wiesmühler, however, a “small finale” against November Masters Series 1000 winner Kevin Köck on Wednesday evening is scheduled for second place in Group B and the associated promotion to the semi-finals of the HTT Tour finals in 2017. A report by C. L.

Vladimir Vukicevic took revenge on Monday evening in the eagerly awaited preliminary round duel with Patrick Wiesmühler for this year’s defeat at the HTT-US-Open in September. The 36-year-old from Sombor, however, had a tough fight in the night session of the third matchday at the “finals” at UTC La Ville, before reaching 165th place. Individual victory of his career at his fifth Masters start for the third time after 2013 and 2016 had reached the semifinals. The fourth meeting with the HTT-US-Open winner was the expected close duel, in which Wiesmühler had the better start, but in the end struggling with physical problems, the ranking second from Serbia, which served at a high level, had to give way.

The first movement – not quite on the hoped-for high level – lacked the moments of tension, because both players didn’t let anything burn at their own serve and confidently played their service games. Out of the clear skies, Wiesmühler then managed the only and decisive break in the ominous and notoriously infamous seventh game of the first set, when the 24-year-old plucked a perfectly timed praise for Vukicevic. In the subsequent game, Wiesmühler demonstrated with excellent moves and fantastic basic strokes why he is traded by experts and insiders as a very hot title favourite here at the HTT Tour Finals 2017. At 5:3, the 2011 HTT Olympic champion left one set point ball unused before bagging the first round after 39 minutes with 6:4 at 5:4 and his own serve with a great forehand pass-ball.

Only 14 minutes had passed since Wiesmühlers converted match ball, the preliminaries had taken a dramatic turn. After all, Vukicevic took five games in a quarter of an hour in a row to the smooth 5-0 lead, and seemed to face a nonexistent opponent in this phase of the game against the zero frowned upon in the players’ circles. Wiesmühler, however, picked up the pace, started an unpayed race to catch up, but showed excellent morale and “embellished” the result with three games en suite. With a score of 6:3, Vukicevic had hoisted the last match of the third matchday in the HTT-Tour finals into a third set, and to overcome two critical moments right at the beginning. Wiesmühler started robbery-like and with a service game won to zero, before he found two break chances for the perhaps trend-setting 2:0. However, the 24-year-old doesn’t have to make any big accusations in retrospect, as Vukicevic unpacked his best service twice and equalled 1:1. They were significant scenes that represented the whole third movement. The three-time HTT-wimbledon winner proved to be untouchable in the entire deciding set with his own serve, and transported the break won 2:1 to the end of the set. Wiesmühler had to serve at 3:5 against the loss of the match, and he did this pitifully with two double errors and a last service game lost to zero.

The 36-year-old then presented himself accordingly relieved late at night in the Players-Lounge at the buffet of the HTT-Touf-Finals “I am very happy to have won today. The Patrick is really uncomfortable for me to play, so the relief is already great. But I am also happy about the fact that I am already in the semi-finals. This makes things much easier and easier. I don’t have any pressure now and can easily go into the last match of the preliminary round. Having the semi-final qualifier in your pocket is good news,”said the 3-time HTT Wimbledon winner, who showed no emotion for the HTT-US Open finals rematch,” I never thought about this match in September. I only had the focus on today’s match. The HTT-US Open Final is forgotten for me,”says Vukicevic, who also plays his way up in the various top ten statistics of the HTT Tour Finals. The runner-up in the standings, who has already won seven matches in the Tour Finals, celebrated his 11th place overall. Individual victory at the Masters level, and is now number 9 in the all-time best list of all players with the most singles victories in the HTT season finale. In front of him as the next player ranks the 2 times master winner and this year’s substitute Franz Mayrhuber with 12 individual victories.

The winner’s table in the Players Lounge was joined by the inferior Patrick Wiesmühler, who then analysed his second appearance at this year’s tour finals in a fair and clear manner,”It was all right. Vladi served some inhumane dishes today, while I didn’t have the ball 100 percent on the bat this time, and I wasn’t 100 percent fit either. The crucial point in my view was perhaps the two missed break chances at the beginning of the third set to a possible 2:0, and the second set hanger in the second set to 0:5 was of course also anything but optimal. I partially broke in completely. Physically, and my game broke down. But I can’t explain why. Sometimes my legs felt like cemented in, and then things got better. Maybe it was the time, I really don’t know. But Vladi would have been hard to beat today anyway. I’ve never seen him serve like he did this evening before,”emphasized the 10-time HTT title holder after his 120th birthday. HTT career match.