Generali Austrian Pro Series: Old master Jürgen Melzer celebrates third victory
Jürgen Melzer celebrated his third win in the third game at the Generali Austrian Pro Series and was not disturbed by a match ball awarded and a break from rain.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: May 29, 2020, 09:18 pm
Melzer won 6: 1, 6: 7 (4) and 6: 4 over Lenny Hampel - and is thus with an impressive record of three wins in three games. The 39-year-old has thus secured group victory in Group B. And that despite the fact that he had already finished with the single on the tour.
Melzer stayed cool in the match against Hampel. At 5: 4 in the second round he already had a match ball, but then had to go into extra time and there after a 1: 1 break from rain. The former world ranking eighth had announced in advance that he would upset his young opponents with "the old school", ie with the slice and network attacks. So far he has succeeded brilliantly.
In the morning Sandro Kopp had won against substitute Neil Oberleitner , who had replaced the injured Lucas Miedler - 6: 3, 6: 3 in the end was Kopp, who celebrated his second victory. And pulled out of the affair well against top favorite Dominic Thiem and got a set on Thursday. Lucas Neumayer beat double specialist Sam Weissborn 7: 6 (5), 7: 6 (5).
In the evening Jurij Rodionov and Marko Andrejic as well as David Pichler and again Neil Oberleitner face each other.
The program on Saturday
10 a.m .: Maximilian Neuchrist - Moritz Thiem
from 12 p.m .: Dominic Thiem - David Pichler
Dennis Novak - Alexander Erler
Sebastian Ofner - Phillip Oswald
from 6 p.m .: placement game