Start of the Generali Austrian Pro Series - "We play real tennis"
The Generali Austrian Pro Series begins today with the match between Dominic Thiem and David Pichler (from 12 noon live on TV and livestream on ServusTV and in and our live ticker). The game is played according to the conventional rules of the ATP tour.
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last edit: May 25, 2020, 09:12 am
In times of the corona pandemic, tennis-specific activities focus on local arrangements: be it like a few days ago in Florida, be it soon in France at Patrick Mouratoglou's academy or on the charity tour by Novak Djokovic, after all will cross a few national borders of the Balkans. And then of course there is the Generali Austrian Pro Series, which starts today with four matches in the federal performance center in Südstadt.
While in the USA, for example, the game was played in "Fast 4" mode, things get very classic in the south of Vienna: on two winning sets, even the third round is not held in the form of a champions' tie break. Organizer Alex Antonitsch said in the current issue of "Quiet, please - the tennisnet podcast": "We play real tennis." No tie breaks up to five, no sets up to four.
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At least four matches for Thiem, Melzer and Co.
There will be some changes due to the circumstances due to the normal game operation. The players have to get their own towels - no problem for Dennis Novak. After all, this situation had already happened at the Davis Cup in Premstätten against Uruguay, she also explained Austrian number two in "Quiet, please". For this purpose, there will only be one chair umpire at work on the hermetically sealed court in the southern part of the city.
In any case, four matches are scheduled for each match day. In addition to Thiem, youngsters Jurij Rodionov and Jürgen Melzer , who celebrated his 39th birthday a few days ago, will also start on Monday. It will be interesting to see how the participants will be able to cope with four games in just as many days after the rather short phase of tennis training - Thiem and Co. are guaranteed so many missions.