German Championships: Masur and Möller for the title

Daniel Masur and Marvin Möller will meet in the men’s singles finals of the German Tennis Championships in Biberach an der Riß. Tamara Korpatsch and Katharina Hobgarski are the finalists of the ladies. The title in the mixed remains in Württemberg.

For the eighth time in a row, the upper Swabian district town of Biberach is the venue for the German women’s and men’s championships this week. In the Württemberg Tennis Federation’s centre of excellence, the national tennis racks face each other in the singles and mixed competition in order to perpetuate their name in the glamorous plaque of honour of the former tournament winners. Steffi Graf, Michael Stich, Nicolas Kiefer or Andrea Petkovic appear as champions here.

Even though the big names are not represented this year, an interesting men’s semi-finals took place on Saturday afternoon between Maximilian Marterer and Daniel Masur, who ranked number 90 in the world ranking. In the duel between the two training partners of TennisBase Oberhaching, Masur finally won 6-4.7-6.82 percent of the first serve points won and two breaks left the world rankings 346 after one hour and 28 minutes. cheer.

“Of course, we know each other inside and out and know where the other player is playing. This was also seen in one or the other situation today, when he was one step earlier than might have been the case with another opponent. That doesn’t make it easy for both players, but I think we did quite well today,”Masur was happy.

“The 24-year-old lost the final against Andreas Beck three years ago and wants to improve his performance by the end of the 2017 season.

After a walk-through in the first round, Masur fought his way to the final round with victories over Nils Brinkmann and Rodolf Molleker. On Sunday we now face Marvin Möller, who scored a 7-6,6-2 victory over Yannick Maden.

Katharina Hobgarski and Tamara Korpatsch will face each other on Sunday in the women’s final. Hobgarski won against the winner of 2014, Antonia Lottner, 7-5,7-5,7-5. The top seeded Korpatsch struggled after hard fight and almost two and a half hours of playtime finally Lara Schmidt with 6-2,4-6,6-2. Down.

The first title of the year was won by Yannick Maden and Lena Rüffer in the Mixed. The two players from Stuttgart defeated Katharina Hobgarski and Rudolf Molleker 1-6,6-3,11-9. The finale lasted 62 minutes.

“Winning the title here was rewarded for a strenuous week”, said Maden, who was satisfied with his performance in the individual on the eve of the previous evening and who was also successful in this discipline last year at Anna Zaja’s side.

“It’s a nice ending to a good season for me. Now it is time to take the next step. The top 100 are definitely the target. I would also like to play in the main field of a Grand Slam” The next chance to do so is for the number 148 in the world rankings at the Australian Open, where Maggots will open the new season after an ATP Challenger in Bangkok at the “down under” qualifying tournament.

The ladies will ring in the individual finals on Sunday from 12 o’ clock.