Double-Trio qualified for the HTT-Tour-Finals

Only seven weeks to go before the best eight single players and the top eight double teams are…

Only seven weeks remain until the best eight single players and the top eight double teams determine their “best in class” at the most important and prestigious tournament of the Hobby Tennis Tour. The big HTT season finale from 24 November to 1 December 2018 at UTC La Ville has been casting its shadows ahead for weeks now with a crisp fight at the highest level in the single. In the doubles, the first participants of the 29th HTT-Tour-Finals edition are determined. A report from C.L.

The first three double teams of the eight pair field of the 29th HTT-Tour-Finals 2018 at UTC La Ville have been determined since Tuesday evening. Roy Krawcewicz and Patrick Krauskopf, who lead the rankings, qualified for the final showdown of the best doubles players just as early as Christoph Csar & Liang Lie-Sun, two-time HTT Season Grand Slam winners, and Martin Zehetner and Harald Schachinger, HTT Australian Open winners.

The HTT-US Open Double Finalists Dominik Jaros & Marcus Goldgruber can also count on good chances for a place in the elite field of eight, while for the rest an exciting and bone-hard finish of the 2018 double season is pending. You can still get the necessary points for the October HTT-500 tournament from 20 to 23 October 2018 and the final November Masters Series 1000 double from 3 to 6 November 2018.

Meanwhile some top-class and established double teams of the last years are threatened by the bitter spectator role at this year’s 29th edition of the HTT-Tour-Finals. For the 2015 Masters Champions Philipp Schneider & Andreas Trinko as well as for the 2016 Masters Winners and former Rankings First Patrick Dobesch & Michael Posch it will be very close with a qualification. That would probably mean two titles at the end of the season. Similarly, the HTT Double Grand Slam winners Christoph Beutler and Matthias Braun, who last weekend at the September Masters Series 1000 tournament maneuvered themselves into a more than difficult situation with an annoying quarter-final out into a possible fourth joint Masters participation after 2014, 2015 and 2016 last weekend, have a similar starting position.