The current youth world number one strikes in Turkey with the Czech Jan Hrazdil.
He did it again: On Saturday in Antalya, Joel Schwärzler recorded his fourth international men’s doubles triumph in his young career after Kottingbrunn and Heraklion twice last year. Vorarlberg’s great hope for the future (ATP doubles 663) and the Czech Jan Hrazdil (ATP doubles 458) decided the final of the ITF M15 clay court tournament in Turkey against the local heroes Mert Alkaya (ATP doubles 1111) and S. Mert Özdemir ( ATP doubles 858) after just 47 minutes with 6:1, 6:0 for themselves. With the 15 ATP points he has won, the 18-year-old will appear in the top 600 for the first time in the double world rankings on April 1st.
Melzer: “They were the best team here – by far”
Hrazdil/Schwärzler previously had the Taiwanese Hong-Lin Fu and the Japanese Geni Inoue 6:2, 6:4 and the Turks Alp Horoz and Berk Ilkel 6:2, 6:7 (4) and 11:9 in the match tiebreak eliminated before meeting Schwärzler’s compatriot Matthias Ujvary. The top-seeded left-handed duo retained the upper hand against the Burgenlander and the Bulgarian Dinko Dinev 6:3, 6:2, and the coronation finally followed the next day. “Even though they fended off two match points in the second round, more due to a lack of concentration, it’s fair to say that they were the best team here – by far,” said ÖTV sports director and Davis Cup captain Jürgen Melzer, This time the ÖTV contract player Schwärzler personally looked after him on site.
Also individual points for Schwärzler and Ujvary
In the individual competition, Melzer observed a 6:1, 6:2 by Schwärzler (ATP 1060) over the Argentinian qualifier Manuel Mouilleron Salvo (ATP 1250) and a 7:5, 6:3 over the seventh-seeded American Felix Corwin (ATP 751 ). But in the quarter-finals against the Italian qualifier Francesco Ferrari (ATP 1215) the team was surprisingly eliminated 4:6, 6:3, 1:6. “I was hoping that Joel would play better in the single,” confessed Melzer. “The first two laps were okay, but not perfect either. I was a bit surprised by yesterday’s performance, it wasn’t that good. And then that’s not enough against an opponent who has already won a lot of matches this year if you don’t play well.” The consolation is two more ATP points. Ujvary was also able to get one, the 19-year-old (ATP 971) was eliminated after a 6:3, 6:4 against the German qualifier Michel Hopp (ATP 1594) in the round of 16 against the seventh-seeded Czech Dominik Kellovsky (ATP 719), who had now reached the final ) with 3:6, 3:6. For Janis Graski (ATP -) it was over in the first qualifying round.
2024-03-17 05:35:31
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