Winter comeback threatens HTT outdoor opening in Südstadt

The start of the 2018 HTT outdoor season planned for next weekend in the…

The start of the 2018 HTT open-air season planned for next weekend in Südstadt is seriously endangered in view of the current weather forecast. The return of “General Winter” with rain, snow and temperatures that make outdoor tennis more than uncomfortable, makes the stars of the hobby tennis tour tremble “before” and “for” their outdoor season opening on the two hard courts in Maria Enzersdorf. Despite the beginning of spring, the start of the open-air season 2018 is threatened, as was the case two years ago, by a cancellation or, as the case may be, by the end of the year. Relocation to the hall of UTC La Ville. The decision whether the 11. The HTT organizer will meet at the Altmannsdorfer Ast at the latest on Thursday morning at the 2nd edition of the March Challenger Tournament or as a parallel event to the Cash4Car Cup 500. A report from C.L

Today is the official start of spring on the final day of the March HTT-150 tournament. The weather of these days does not keep to the season, of course, and instead of sunshine and mild temperatures it continues to send sad and cold winter weather to our latitudes. With the winter comeback, the organisation of the first open-air seasonal tournament in the Südstadt and thus the organisation of the 11th World Cup is therefore also wobbly. März-Challengers on the southern outskirts of Vienna. The forecasts and weather models are still not certain, for next Sunday even 14 degrees in the plus announced again, and therefore one would like to take time on the part of the HTT organization also still with the decision to cancel the fifth HTT-Challenger of this season. However, the alternative programme in the event of a cancellation in Südstadt is already established. Then the March Challenger tournament would move into the hall of UTC La Ville, as it did in the 2016 season.

While last year with the first serve under the open sky on 24. March 2017 the third earliest start into an HTT open-air season since there were records to celebrate, the March Challenger tournament in 2015 and 2016 also had to give way to winter, with which the March Masters Series 1000 tournament took place one week later as an outdoor opening. The HTT was only badly hit in 2013, when neither März-Challenger nor März-Masters 1000 could go into the limelight without a hall roof. It was the first time that it was possible to play in the open air since the start of the clay court season on April 1. We will shorten the waiting time for this year’s decision with a little statistic about “HTT-Outdoor-Openings”.