Michael Kunz celebrates his second spring at HTT with Challenger double pack

HTT-Evergreen Michael Kunz surfs on a wave of success at the beginning of autumn 2017, and for the first time…

HTT-Evergreen Michael Kunz surfs on a wave of success at the current beginning of autumn 2017, and celebrated his second “spring” on HTT-Challenger level at the last outdoor sand court tournaments of the season on the Hobby Tennis Tour.The 46-year-old from Lower Austria, 2008 winner of the HTT-Wimbledon grass classic, won for the second time within 14 days at an HTT Challenger, and on Tuesday afternoon he wore himself at the 12th HTT Challenger.September-Challenger edition with a 1:6,6:2,6:1 final victory over Herbert Gruner, who will be the first-time HTT finalist in an HTT final, for the tenth time in total, in the winner lists of Austria’s largest amateur tennis series.A report by C. L.

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Oldboy Michael Kunz created the month of September with two Challenger successes to his very personal “golden autumn”, and as a long written off ex-ranked runner-up, he gave a very powerful sign of life.After the 46 year old experienced rider was laughed at by his euphoria two weeks ago after his success at the Angern-Challenger, which had been in third place, the Lower Austrian, who dropped to 137th place in the ranking, continued his career at the 12th World Championships.The second edition of the September Challengers in the UTC La Ville followed, and caught up without shining the 10th place overall.Tournament victory of his HTT career, which has lasted more than 11 years.These were two extraordinary tournament weeks for Michael Kunz, who already considered his Angern title to be a very special one.After all, the success in Marchfeld was the first since April 2014 and a title win that ended an incredibly long and persistent dry spell on the 11 years old HTT clay courts.At the September BTT 250 tournament in 2006, it was when Kunz triumphed for the last time on red ashes, and at that time on the venerable grounds in Leberstraße without losing a set and with only 18 games sold, that he left Mr. Christoph Foitik, Renee Glatzl, Armin Zadic, Martin Bölzlbauer and Michael Kovar behind.After that, 57 unsuccessful attempts and participation in the tournament were lost, as well as the self-awareness that his way of playing tennis on the red slippery surface coupled with his age had little chance of success.

Until September 2017, when Kunz was able to win the Angern-Challenger title at the 12th World Championships with confidence.September Challengers in attack mode in its 159th edition.The first tournament of the career started, and there he struggled through the tableau with a great cast.If the service giant, who had no problems against Michael Eder and Roman Schönbichler in the first two rounds, the 101st round was the best.Season’s tournament in the further course of the season to a strangling game for the former HTT Wimbledon champion.Both in the quarter-finals against Bernhard Kraus and in the semifinals against Michael Kenn, the German Wagramer had to cross the full distance of three sets before he had to face India’s number 1 in the 330th round of the semi-finals.Career match 180.Victory celebrated and the 17th placein the final of his career.

The final against the same age-old final debutant Herbert Gruner became an extremely entertaining affair.All in all, the two 46 year-olds were just 69 minutes on the pitch for three sets.The first leg was a clear thing for Gruner, who with two breaks to the 2:1 and 5:1 in only 20 minutes made his debut finale with the 1:0 lead hopefully.Two breaks at the beginning of sentence No. 2 should mark the turnaround in favour of Michael Kunz in this 101st set.to the season finale.A re-break to the 1:4 and a great service game Gruners with two aces were no longer the result of cosmetics, as Kunz had equalized 1:1 in sets after a further 21 minutes.In the decision, Gruner then played a catastrophically played service game with two of his 10 double errors and won the decisive break to 1:3.To zero and with Ace No. 7, Kunz extended his lead to 4:1 before he took the second break to 5:1.The final service play was only a form pocket, and after exactly 69 minutes Michael Kunz had finished 10th.of his HTT career.