Generali Austrian Pro Series: Dominic Thiem with Lucas Miedler in a group
The Generali Austrian Pro Series draw is out. Austria's superstar Dominic Thiem is the top favorite in the tournament.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: May 11, 2020, 06:57 pm
National professional tennis returns in Austria! From Monday, May 25, 16 men and 8 women will compete in the Generali Austrian Pro Series in the federal performance center in Südstadt and compete for a total prize money of 151,750 euros.
The grouping has been known since Monday - they look like this:
Group A: Dominic Thiem, Lucas Miedler, David Pichler, Sandro Kopp
Group B: Jurij Rodionov, Jürgen Melzer, Lenny Hampel, Marko Andrejic
Group C: Dennis Novak, Sam Weissborn, Alex Erler, Lukas Neumayer
Group D: Sebastian Ofner, Phillip Oswald, Max Neuchrist, Moritz Thiem
The men start with four groups of four players each, who play their matches within eight days. The top twelve players progress and continue the tournament in four groups of three. In the end there is a tournament based on the ATP finals.
The game schedule will be announced at the end of the week.
In addition to the twelve best male players in Austria, the organizers around Wolfgang Thiem, Alex Antonitsch and Jürgen Melzer, together with the ÖTV, awarded four wild cards to the Next Gen for men and two for women. To Marko Andrejic, for example, who was at the ATP Cup with the Austrian team in early 2020. Or Lukas Neumayer, Austria's best junior right now.
"I will try to break his rhythm as much as possible," said Miedler in his assessment of "Kasi Live" about his upcoming duel against Thiem. Because if he "only" played along, he would look old.
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Barbara Haas top with the women
The draw for the women resulted in the following groups:
Group A: Barbara Haas, Tamira Paszek, Mira Antonitsch, Irina Dshandshgava
Group B: Julia Grabher, Melanie Klaffner, Sinja Kraus, Elena Karner
The women start after the second group phase of the men and play out their winner in two group phases.
The games will of course be played in a Corona-friendly manner: without on-site spectators, without ball children and line judges. Only a chair umpire will still be present on the court.
All matches are shown to tennis fans on TV or via live stream (at tennisnet.com , laola1 or on Facebook), and the rights to broadcast Dominic Thiem's games have been secured by ServusTV. All matches from Sportradar are marketed internationally.