The March Challenger Tournament, planned as an outdoor opening this weekend, will be…
The March Challenger Tournament, planned as an outdoor opening this weekend, will fall victim to cold late winter weather, as it did in 2015 and 2016, and will simply move to the Altmannsdorf branch of the UTC La Ville tennis hall. This decision was made by the HTT organizer on Thursday morning after intensive study of various weather forecasts for the first spring weekend of this year. The 11. The second edition of the HTT-März-Challengers will thus take place as the final conclusion of the HTT indoor season 2017/2018 instead of as the start of the open-air season 2018. A short report from C.L
It would have been the second earliest start to an open-air tennis season in the history of HTT, with only 2014 being beaten on the 21st. March for the first time after a long indoor season in the open air. But the emphasis is on “would”, because the one for Friday 23. The prelude to this year’s open-air season, which was set for March 2018, falls victim to the rather “cool” weather forecast. The 11. As a result of the move to the UTC La Ville, the 10th edition of the HTT-März-Challengers will become the big indoor finale of a long indoor season 2017/2018 with a total of 36 individual tournaments. The great line-up for the “hopefully” last indoor single event of the season does not stop there. Five top 100 players have already confirmed their participation, including Kazakh young star Aleksandr Koshylak and HTT record player Markus Hobiger.