Paralympics Tokyo 2021: Langmann and Flax fail in the double quarter-finals
After Martin Legner and Josef Riegler were eliminated in the first round of the Paralympic double wheelchair tournament, Nico Langmann and Thomas Flax also failed in the round of the last eight duos.
by Stefan Bergmann
last edit: Aug 29, 2021, 04:55 pm
In the end, the Austrian men's team was granted a match success at the Paralympic wheelchair tennis tournament, but nothing more was possible at the season highlight in Tokyo. Nico Langmann and Thomas Flax reached the quarter-finals with a hard-won 3: 6, -6: 4, -7: 5 success over the Spanish team Enrique Siscar Meseguer and Francesc Tur.
The Vorarlberger Flax was overjoyed after the match in an interview with the ORF: “It was everything, it was hard, it was a fight, it was sweat, from Nico also tears - he bit through the pain today and I supported him can play the best tennis I've ever played. ”In the round of the last eight teams, however, there was nothing more to gain against the British pairing Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid. Langmann / Flax received the maximum penalty with two 0: 6.
Legner still in Paris at the age of 62?
Before that, Martin Legner and Josef Riegler were more or less without a chance in round one in a 1: 6, 3: 6 against the South Koreans Ho Won Im and Sang-Ho Oh. "We were a good team. It was really fun. Tokyo was still worth a trip, we can take a lot of great impressions home with us, ”said the now 59-year-old Tyrolean, drawing a positive conclusion. It remains to be seen whether Legner will still be able to participate in Paris at the age of 62.
On Friday, the first day of the competition in the Japanese capital, the entire Austrian quartet was eliminated in the singles without winning a set.