Kramer on the trail of Roger Federer and exactly 20 years on the HTT

Last Friday, the ATP World Tour announced that 19-time Grand Slam winner Roger Fede, who won the Grand Slam…

Last Friday, the ATP World Tour announced that 19-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer made his first appearance in an ATP ranking exactly 20 years ago.The Hobby Tennis Tour, which takes place on the last Wednesday of September 2017, also offers such an exceptional case.Twenty years ago, on the 27th.On September 9,1997, a 14-year-old Bürscherl made his HTT debut and started a career rich in highlights that continues to this day.The jubilarian is Christoph Kramer, who is the longest serving player of all HTT players.A report by C. L.

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Exactly 20 years ago, on the 27th.In the first round of the September HTT 500 tournament, Christoph Kramer played his debut single on the hobby tennis tour with a wildcard in September 1997.The straight 1-6,3-6 defeat at the start of his HTT career had really motivated and spurred the 14-year-old to embark on an unprecedented career.In meanwhile two decades of HTT affiliation, Kramer completed a total of 308 tournaments (only Markus Hobiger with 326 starts in front of him) and entered the final 27 times.His last Sunday’s 16th-final defeat of China’s HTT superstar Johnny Ye was Kramer’s 628th.Single-match, nobody has played more singles since 1990 in the 27-year history of the Hobby Tennis Tour.In addition, the Leopoldsdorf player is the only player to have outbid the ominous 600-match mark so far. Kramer went 334 times as the winner, imemrhin the third-best value of the Open era.The now 34 year old celebrated his greatest career success in September 2012, when he won his first and only HTT Grand Slam title at the HTT-US-Open, and was then able to cheer for a sensational career high ranking as number 2 in the HTT Computer Ranking List.In the mid-2000s, Kramer set another record with an incredible 128 tournaments played in uninterrupted order.

This is a gigantic number and a hard to believe period of time. 20 years I am at the HTT today, I honestly lack the words.I’ve spent more than half my life on the hobby tennis tour,”Kramer said in an initial reaction on early Wednesday afternoon,” I don’t remember my debut 20 years ago, but since I went through a very high school in my first match because I had to play against the then hard court king in his living room, it shows that I have endured quite a lot as a very young player.Of course, I have a lot of great memories of the last 20 years.First and foremost, of course, on my HTT-US Open title, that was a really great success.Winning a Grand Slam tournament has always been my big goal,”says the 34 year old Leopoldsdorf, who has always been sure that HTT would take an explosive development,” This project is simply awesome and has developed fantastic in Saschen quality and quantity.I am glad to be part of it “.