If you want to make the effort, you could take the table of the tennis Bundesliga to hand to develop a scenario before the last game weekend that still gave the TC BW Neuss the class. That doesn’t really make sense.
But for the sake of completeness: Newcomer FTC Palmengarten (5:9 points), who is only allowed to play once again before the start of the season due to the departure of champions Rochusclub Düsseldorf, would have to give up his home game on Friday against TC Bredeney, who are about to win the title. At the same time, TC Blau-Weiss (1:11) is obliged to bring in the first win of the season at TC Großhesselohe, which has now been saved. Then – and only then – could the team bosses Marius Zay and Clinton Thomson determine how high the victory in Bredeney (!) would have to be on Sunday in order to still manage the last-minute rescue via the match points. In this category, too, the competitor from Frankfurt, who was sentenced to inaction on the last day of the game, is four points better. Mathematically, Neuss could also intercept Rosenheim (5:7), but given the match points already collected by Upper Bavaria (+12 compared to blue and white), that is completely utopian.
On the way to the Isar valley, Thomson was not in the mood for mind games of this kind. “For that to happen, a small miracle would have to happen on site.” Sure, dying in installments in the relegation battle gnaws at his psyche, “you feel like it , like a wounded animal that is slowly bleeding to death,” but “we’re not making a tragedy out of it,” he assures. Rather, he and Marius Zay have already started planning for the next season in the second division. “We want to get back up there as soon as possible,” he says. Managing Director Bernhard Rüsing sees it this way: “Blau-Weiss needs tennis as a competitive sport – otherwise we are a club like any other.”
For the weekend, the record champions have scraped together everything the thinned-out squad has to offer. While Großhesselohe is probably in first place with Zsombor Piros – the Hungarian, who is ranked 120th in the ATP world rankings, replaces the Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena (ATP 65) – and otherwise in Jozef Kovalik, Luciano Darderi and ex-Neusser Peter Gojowczyk the team that defeated the newcomer Tennispark Versmold 5-1 last Sunday, the guests are building on Geoffrey Blancaneaux (2-3 individual record this season), Antoine Hoang (0-1), Clement Tabur (0-1 ) and Pedro Sousa (0-2). “It’s not that easy to turn things around in this line-up,” admits Thomson himself. But more is not possible: Number one Botic van de Zandschulp is injured, as is Guilio Zeppieri (3). Matteo Arnaldi (2) contests the hard court season in North America, was eliminated on Wednesday at the Canadian Open in Toronto in the round of 16 against Daniil Medvedev. Raul Brancaccio (4) gave up at the Sauerland Open in Lüdenscheid in the semifinals against eventual tournament winner Duje Ajdukovic with his own 6:3 and 2:1 lead, “but would,” says Thomson, “come on Sunday if we win on Friday.”
This list could easily be continued: Mattia Bellucci (6), recently with strong performances in the Neuss jersey against Aachen and Gladbach, has jetted off to the States like Harold Mayot (10). And the planned Franco Agamenone had registered for the Challenger tournament from Marc Raffel in Büderich, which ran until Sunday, but then withdrew injured and was then banned by the ATP. Even the indefatigable Javier Barranco Cosano is indispensable: the Spaniard, inconsolable after his two recent defeats against Flavio Cobolli (Kurhaus Lambertz Aachen) and Lukas Rosol (Gladbacher HTC), is at the Challenger tournament in Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina) after his victories over Andrej Nedic (5:7, 7:6, 6:3) and Mariano Navone (6:2, 7:6) in the quarterfinals and meets Fabian Marozsan there on Friday. The Hungarian had played with the Gladbacher HTC in the Bundesliga on Jahnstraße on Sunday and won his duel with Geoffrey Blancaneaux in straight sets.
Should Blau-Weiss still be in the race for remaining in the class on Sunday, the game in Bredeney would be a real showdown: on the one hand the hosts, who would be crowned German champions with a win, on the other hand the guests, who fighting for their membership in the House of Lords with their backs to the wall. There was something similar before: In 2019, TC BW Neuss snatched promotion to the 1st league from the Essen team with a 5-4 win at the Zeiss Arch facility.
2023-08-11 02:50:00
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