On grass, he would work out more against Lucas Miedler, said Jürgen Melzer at the end of his appearance at "Kasi Live". By the way, from Melzer's wife Fabienne, who contributed in the comments that the in-house garden had suffered a lot in terms of lawn quality over the past few days. The theme of the day: The planned small national tennis tour, which should bring employment and joy to the Austrian players over the coming weeks.

Where Melzer wants to start individually. And that despite the fact that he has done almost nothing in the past six weeks. The first training session on Tuesday with Alex Peya, however, left its mark: "I felt like a 70-year-old." That should improve until the start of the matches, which are supposed to start in a Corona-compliant manner and without spectators from May 24th . Because Jürgen Melzer is hot: "It was a long time ago that I was looking forward to an individual."

No performance by Marach - Thiem there later?

"Kasi Live" will reveal on Monday whether another Austrian double legend will also go into the Bütt: Julian Knowle, currently Dennis Novak's coach, wants to declare himself. There will be nothing with an appearance by Oliver Marach - he is stuck in Panama. A shame from organizer Alex Antonitsch's point of view, because he saw a potential top 20 player in early Marach. In single!

Philipp Oswald will probably try it for that. Vorarlberg is in position 40 in the current double world rankings and as a high profile volley player would have similar preferences as Jürgen Melzer: Lawn!

Melzer, who is organizing the Austrian series together with Alex Antonitsch and Wolfgang Thiem, expressed himself slightly optimistic about a performance by Dominic Thiem : This would certainly be conceivable in a selected week. However, the events were not built up for participation by the current world ranking third party.