Rain cannot stop the players of the “Landes

The most important things first! The extensive second matchday is in dry cloths, and the one in…

The most important things first! The extensive second matchday is finished in dry cloths, and the qualification for the Vienna State Championship 2018 played in a tableau of 32 players. And this despite the most adverse weather conditions, which accompanied the second match day of the “Landes” on the Altmannsdorf branch throughout the afternoon. Why the tournament organizer insisted on the venue UTC La Ville in the apron, became clear at the latest at this yesterday’s rainy second play day at Dr. Karl Waltl way. There are already more than 1A ratios, which the stars of the federal capital championship in the UTC La Ville find. Despite constant rain, the matches could be played on top courts. In addition, a cool acting chief referee, and “voila”, day 2 of the Vienna Landesmeiterschaften has been staged as scheduled. From the UTC La Ville reported for hobbytennistour.at C.L

OTC star Yannick Weihs and Kalksburg young star Leon Roider opened the second day of the 2018 Vienna Provincial Championships at the centre court of UTC La Ville in sunshine and muggy and warm temperatures, and the two Viennese players gave the audience on the terrace of UTC La Ville a spectacular three-set fight, which in the end saw the favourite Yannick Weihs in front by a hair’s breadth after just over two hours. However, the OTC star’s victory was preceded by an exciting and curious match in which Weihs initially seemed to do justice to his favourite role in a confident manner. The 29-year-old quickly pulled away 5-0 and probably did not expect his opponent’s resurrection. This followed, however, and on a grand scale. Roider won seven of the next 10 games, providing well-deserved results cosmetics in the first set with three games won in a row, before in the second set with 6:0 in a dynamic way to set equalization.

His opponent, of course, then demonstrated his class and the more routine in the decision, quickly took a 4-2 lead and did not let himself be put out of concentration when Roider once again set out on a furious chase to catch up. At 5:4 and 15:30, the 18-year-old from Kalksburg was only two points short of sensation and promotion to the round of 16 of the Vienna State Championships. Weihs finally finalized 7:5, and despite the victory was not very satisfied. “I had expected a strong opponent, but I hadn’t expected it to be that close in the run-up to the game. Roider played very well in the second set and made hardly any mistakes, and I had to fight with knee pains,” said the winner, who will now meet Theo Berger of Altmannsdorfer TC, who took 7th seed Patrick Malik out of the title race 6-2, 6-2 early.

Also already in the round of the last 16 at the Vienna Provincial Championships is HTT-Australian Open finalist Philipp Jahn. The 26-year-old surprisingly won the Pötzleinsdorf derby at the “Stars for You Court” against the more highly rated Can Paul Gueven 7:5, 6:0, and could meet another team-mate in the round of 16 if Moritz Daxböck lives up to his favourite position against WAT Meidling young star Alex Rieger in round 1. CTP-Pötzleinsdorf-Jungtalent Paul Henke, however, came under the wheels with 0:6, 0:6, who had a black day against the No. 6 of the tournament Aaron Prandstetter of Alt Erlaaer TC.

The qualifying campaign has already ended and Messrs Fabian Mayrhuber from the WAC, Nico Mucic from the AZ Tennis Club, Mathias Wagner from Team Donaufeld and Moritz Ellmann from the Altmannsdorf TC are allowed to play at least one more match in the main field, which is packed with top stars. Should one of the quartet come to a second performance in the coming days, he would have done a real sensation in the game before. After all, waiting with Al-Mahmoud, Sikanov. Vukicevic and Feigl are real high-carat players and some of the title contenders for the brave qualifiers. But they did their duty brilliantly, and on a dull Tuesday the decisive victories for promotion to the main competition took place. All four remained undamaged in the qualifying finals without losing a set, and at least in terms of strength before the gigantic first-round tasks.

On Tuesday afternoon, the women’s competition of the Vienna Provincial Championships also took place, and the ladies’ tournament will be of particular importance in the next few days. After all, the two finalists can look forward to wildcards for Austria’s only ladies’ future tournament. Tournament director and ÖTV vice-president Raimund Stefanits has made two wildcards available for the best Viennese players, and the race for the two coveted ITF tickets is over for Liz Keller and Pia Pustelnik even before the match really gets going. While the Pötzleinsdorf lady Pia Pustelnik’s two-set-out against Roxanne Repasi, who is decorated with titles, could still be expected, the early out of Liz Keller against Zusana Sopkova, four years younger, came as a surprise. Yet Keller actually had both movements safely under control. In round 1, the HTT shopping queen of 2016 led 4:1 before she lost five games in a row. In the second set, Keller, who trains in Südstadt, even had a 5:2 lead before the young talent, who is in the service of TC Kalksburg and is trained by Christian Trubrig, showed off 5 games en suite on the other side of the net, taking Keller to a deep valley of disappointment. “I didn’t seem to want to win today” analysed the 18-year-old disappointed.