Generali Open Kitzbühel: Daniel Altmaier in the Betway Match of the Day for the semi-finals
Daniel Altmaier is playing for the second semi-final within a week at the Generali Open in Kitzbühel. The opponent in the Betway Match of the Day will be Gianluca Mager from Italy.
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last edit: Jul 29, 2021, 10:01 am
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So far, Daniel Altmaier has found his way around the court kitchen master in the Kitzbühel tennis club: First against the strong Serb Laslo Djere, semi-finalist at the Generali Open 2020. On Wednesday then against Marco Cecchinato, with whom Altmaier exchanged a few friendships after his work was done. Who was the trigger for this? Hard to say: Altmaier pointed in the direction of Cecchinato's coach immediately after the match point. What the semi-finalist from Roland Garros 2018 didn't like.
Such dramas were alien to Gianluca Mager's previous two appearances in Kitzbühel. There wasn't much to interpret on lap one, Dennis Novak just wasn't good enough for Mager. In the second round, the Italian said goodbye to Albert Ramos-Vinolas, the man who two years ago had become a small part of Austrian sports history at the Generali Open: as Dominic Thiem's inferior final opponent.
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As is well known, that is missing in Kitzbühel in 2021, the role of the local favorite was briefly occupied by Alexander Erler, who is no longer available for this part since his loss to Mikael Ymer. So will sympathies flow to the young man from the northern neighboring country? Daniel Altmaier plays a very nice tennis, especially from the backhand side. The forehand is okay, the serve in variant one is good, in the match against Cecchinato the volleys ended up more out of bounds or in the net than in the field.
Gianluca Mager knows that, of course, he only fought an ostrich with Daniel Altmaier last week. The German won it in Umag, also in the quarter-finals. A year and a half ago in Rio de Janeiro, he proved that the 26-year-old skinny is not afraid of anything or anyone: Skinny defeated Dominic Thiem on his best run, the sand. Is it enough to get revenge for Umag in the Betway Match of the Day against Daniel Altmaier?
Here is the single tableau in Kitzbühel
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