Generali Race to Kitzbühel: Tobias Für Schuss - the biggest winner next to Casper Ruud
Tobias Für Schuss is the winner of the Generali Race to Kitzbühel 2021. We accompanied the winner of the Cupra Formentor for 24 hours.
by Claus Lippert
last edit: Aug 04, 2021, 02:35 pm
Tobias Für Schuss is the winner of the Generali Race to Kitzbühel 2021. The 21 year old from Bregenz won the final of the Generali Race final tournament in the Kapserfeld stadium in front of 1,500 spectators against the Lower Austrian surprise man Alois Gessl after a 4-0 start on Friday afternoon -Specification and meanwhile 3: 7 deficit still 10: 7, and thus ensured the first Vorarlberg title win in the fifth attempt of the Kitzbühel tie-break-shoot history. The reward for the triumphant success of the ITN 2.7 player is a brand new 150 hp vehicle in the form of a Cupra Formentor with a gigantic value of almost 35,000 euros for the hobby tennis sector. These are the key sporting data for the glorious success of the advance. But how does a hobby player deal with such an extraordinary experience as the Generali Race to Kitzbühel tiebreaker shootout final tournament?
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Generali Race to Kitzbühel - Austria's most exquisite tennis format
The Generali Race to Kitzbühel is definitely the largest, most exciting and most exquisite type of tournament that currently exists in popular Austrian tennis. Nowhere else can amateur tennis players play for such outstanding prices, and that in an atmosphere that is otherwise reserved for the best tennis players in the world at work. Playing in front of spectators in the stadium for a car or two e-scooters with a total value of almost 50,000 euros, this incredible scenario is only offered by the Generali Race as part of the ATP tournament in Kitzbühel. This wonderful and unique experience - not obtainable for any money in the world - also demands a lot from the hobby player.
Amateurs are faced with an extraordinary situation that they have never experienced before and that must be dealt with. The Generali Race to Kitzbühel changes the lives of the two finalists for a weekend in one fell swoop. While the loser struggles with deep disappointment, the winner suddenly has to learn to deal with notoriety and popularity. This is also the case with 2021 champion Tobias Für Schuss, who only two weeks earlier had tackled the Generali Race to Kitzbühel mission at his home tournament in Hard and a week later in Going had put together the qualifying title double.
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Advance after 3: 7 deficit with seven points in a row to the Cupra winner
The final tournament itself was actually a "mission impossible" for Für Schuss. He had to tackle no less than four of his total of seven matches on the way to winning the title with a maximum deficit of 0: 7. "Tobi" delivered the hussar piece par excellence in round 3 against Fabian Dummer, when he was able to successfully fend off no fewer than 8 match points against the young Viennese at 1: 9. Thrown all ITN conventions overboard, Für Schuss played tactically cleverly and with the highest ball safety in mind until the final, which was brought forward by 24 hours for Saturday due to the predicted bad weather.
And then it was time. A hypernervous advance shot was quickly 3: 7 behind a courageously acting Gessl, before he made his dream of winning a car come true with seven points in a row, cool and without shining. With a transformed match point, however, nothing was as it was before in one fell swoop. There was an on-court interview with presenter legend and cult stadium announcer Stefan Steinacher. Then camera teams and photographers flocked to get the best picture of the handover of the keys by the Cupra managing director. The next stage was the press conference, where Für Schuss gave interviews for Servus TV and Kitz Fan TV, among others.
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The way through Kitzbühel turns into a triumphal procession for Tobias Für Schuss
Congratulations came in every minute on the cell phone of the newly crowned Cupra winner. The way to the parking lot also felt like a triumphal procession for Für Schuss. Honking, screaming, waving, total strangers congratulated from the cars jammed through Kitzbühel. And also on the trip up to Going, the gray Cupra of the Generali Race organizer with the champ from the country on board in the completely stowed Gams-City became the eye-catcher of many tennis fans. There was a beautiful and emotional gesture on arrival at the Going tennis club, where the competitors and club members received the big winner of the day with a standing ovation.
The day was far from over for Advance. After all, the 21-year-old was also in the semifinals of the HTT Generali Open 500 tournament, and there Diego Laporta got to feel Tobi's bliss in the most brutal way in the early evening at the Grand Stand in Kitzbühel. Fuerschuss outclassed, fully pumped with adrenaline, and euphorized his counterpart to the tips of his hair with hammer-hard and precisely set blows with 6: 0, before the big rain came. Für Schuss ended the day in the Schnapperhof in Going, where there was a small and cozy drink at the invitation of the HTT ranking first Damian Roman. There was no big and wild victory party, after all, Füruß had big plans for the next day.
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When the pressure and tension took their toll on advance
Only it stayed with the plan. Because in the semifinal continuation of the big game against Laporta, which had been canceled the day before due to rain, the air was out when the shot was taken. Even more: the mental tension and the immense pressure of the past hours and days now took their toll, as expected. Tired and empty in the head, the body went limp, and advance was dealt with with only one game won and a bitter zero in the decision set. A bitter pill for the man from Bregenz, who did not consoled himself with having won a car anyway. And that is what makes this Tobias Für Schuss so special. He thinks in different categories, in different templates. He had come to the Tiroler Unterland to take four titles, a car, a scooter, turquoise shimmering crystal and the mighty silver HTT euro pot into the country. Nothing came of that, but in his disappointment he showed himself to be a great sportsman, and on Saturday afternoon he went to the photographer on the center court again for a picture with the Cupra Formentor jacked up in the stadium.
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Then it finally went home. Tobi then thanked the Generali Race organizer and his "two bodyguards" with an invitation to dinner - "I won enough prize money this weekend" - before heading to the Kitzbühel train station in the Cupra. At exactly 4:40 p.m. the Generali Race Kitzbühel chapter was finally over for Tobias Für Schuss. The doors of his train had closed and a three and a half hour journey lay ahead of him. A trip on which he could process and process all that he had experienced, on which he could lean back and finally enjoy. In any case, Tobias Für Schuss is the big winner of the extended Kitzbühel tennis week. And not just from a sporting point of view. The 21-year-old played his way into the hearts of his opponents, made friends with almost all HTT stars, and is a welcome guest when it says again: Welcome to the Generali Race to Kitzbühel 2022.