Noah Castillo makes history with his first HTT career title

In the eleventh season finale 2018, scheduled for tonight at 8 pm, the time has finally come…..

The eleventh finale of the 2018 season, scheduled for tonight at 8 pm, is finally here. The international HTT stars will celebrate the first HTT tournament victory of the new season after ten red-white-red triumphs. In the 35th purely international final of the 5. In the 16th edition of the February Challenger at UTC La Ville, Russian veteran Stanislav Perepelkin and 14-year-old Noah Castillo from the Dominican Republic face each other. However, in order to qualify for the final duel between the generations, both players had to postpone semi-final overtime on Monday evening. Castillo had to fight a more than equal opponent in the 12-year-old Nathalie Gratzl from TK Big Point Muckendorf before his 4:6,6:3,6:2 victory was certain. Meanwhile, Stanislav Perepelkin won the second preliminary-lap duel in a tie-break thriller against Dmitriy Zikanov in the purely Russian neighbourhood meeting with 7:6,6:7,7:6. A report by C. L.

With the 14 year old Noah Castillo from the CTP Pötzleinsdorf, a young man starts to write HTT history again on Tuesday evening. Set as number 1 and probably the strongest player of the 5. In the second edition of the February Challenger Tournament at UTC La Ville, the tennis star could not only celebrate his personal premiere victory with a final victory over Russia’s old star Stanislav Perepelkin, but could also ensure the Dominican Republic’s first ever tournament victory in the history of the Hobby Tennis Tour. A title win for Castillo would mean that, with the Caribbean country, there would then be 28 different countries on the HTT’s extensive list of winners in addition to Austria. In any case, the 165th anniversary celebration will take place on Tuesday evening. international tournament victory of the HTT Open era, and the favorite for this title is without a doubt Noah Castillo. His Russian opponent in the final will hardly be able to reach him in a playful way, so it will depend on the 14-year-old youngster himself how he will cope with his increasingly unattractive opponent.

In the semi-final junior duel Noah Castillo had to go to his limits for the first time in a playful and mental way after three clear successes in the days before, in order to avoid a defeat that would probably not be without consequences for him. Losing against a girl would probably not have been very pleasant for the 14-year-old, and would have caused hard weeks and months in the club and among his tennis friends. But it wouldn’t have been a shame at all, because with Nathalie Gratzl a very young and playfully convincing lady played herself in the focus of HTT events this weekend. The 12-year-old, who at her tender age is already playing in the women’s team of the TK Big Point Muckendorf Landesliga, coached by HTT Olympic champion Martin Mayer and has already had some sparring with HTT presenter Mathias Wagner in her legs, has also worked internationally and is one of the promising talents in domestic girls’ tennis. And the young Lower Austrian demonstrated her skills in the semi-final gender duel with Noah Castillo lastingly and impressively, won the first round with a score of 6:4 and in the second heat at 2:1 and 40:0 she had the triple chance to set herself apart with 3:1 and to be able to make a preliminary decision. Especially since Castillo is well known that besides his undoubtedly enormous playful potential, he loses a game in his head if it doesn’t go according to his wishes. And then everything else didn’t go well for the 14-year-old. After Castillo had secured his second set with 6:3, there was another 1:2 and 0:40 to overcome in the decision. Having survived all the critical situations, Castillo had already won a small stage victory over himself before the match point was changed. The 14-year-old took the third set necessary to advance to his first HTT career final at the end with a score of 6-2, while Gratzl also fell victim to the efforts of the last few days in the finish. After a super Sunday with three – self-wanted – matches, and a Monday with school and training, Gratzl had to fight with heavy legs at the end.

His opponent in the final will be Russia’s veteran Stanislav Perpelkin, who in his eleven-and-a-half years-long career is now reaching for his eighth career title. The 34-year-old from Moscow, who last triumphed at the Prater Cup last summer, beat Dmitriy Zikanov in the semi-final Russian brother duel after almost 4 hours of play with 7:6,6:7,7:6. To the disappointment of all those involved, a far-reaching unsightly cramp culminated in a tie-break orgy that only ended 5 minutes before 1:00 a. m.