Thiem ensures tennis boom in Austria
After Thomas Muster in the 1990s (including Davis Cup Semifinals) Austria is experiencing a new tennis boom. This is confirmed by both industry and the associations in Austria. Our new figurehead and role model of a whole generation plays a big part in this: Dominic Thiem . With his top achievements such as currently around the ATP Finals in London he makes for headlines and transmission times on television.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Nov 15, 2019, 10:12 am
Tennis Austria cheers in front of the TV
With victories against Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, Dominic Thiem is not only in the semi-finals of the ATP Finals in London, but also ensures a climax of euphoria in Austria. The tennis fans experienced the heroic victories against 2 of the current top 3 of the ATP ranking on Free TV. After the " best match of his career " against Djokovic it was just after Tuesday midnight: 400,000 spectators in the top watched closely the exploited match ball and all tennis Austria was electrified by the performance, the mood in London and the tension, what in this tournament is still possible for Thiem.
Thiem as future No. 1
It's done - World Champion Thiem? Bald No. 1 in the world? "Dominic Thiem is one of the best and probably the one who will be the future number one after the big three," says Alex Antonitsch in his analysis on Servus TV, which incidentally also bring the ATP Cup and the Australian Open in Austria's living room. How important the services and resulting coverage and airtime for all Tennis Austria, we have also black and white. We asked for industry and someone who knows the numbers of the clubs.
"More tennis is being played"
eTennis Mastermind and CEO Andreas Munk supports the clubs and thus the popular sport with their online tool. The seat reservations show a promising tendency among the clubs. "The Austrians are playing more tennis again, we have created a statistic with a representative sample of 200 Austrian tennis clubs from our clients and identified the development over the past years." "Clubs of different sizes, from city and country and perennial data have been selected we can see a growth of 34%. we are trying our features some help and support the officials in the member management, billing, tennis court reservations and much more. This saves time in the administration, which can be used for youth work and search for sponsors. In addition, we try to liven up the clubs with online claim pyramids and our tournament module for easy handling of club championships. " Further information at www.eTennis.at
So, what could be better than having more kids playing the racquet and reactivating many tennis players to the seniors?
Also Babolat cheers
In developing the new "Pure Strike" racket by Babolat - Dominic Thiem's wonder weapon - he had his finger in the game. Under the name "RPM Power Electric Brown ", the string that Dominic most recently trusted will be released soon. And anyone who equips Dominic Thiem with racquets as the successor to Rafael Nadal, need not worry about the future either. Not international and certainly not in Austria. The services of Dominic Thiem let Babolat cheer also and one notices that in the demand for the products and the sales figures, also Babolat confirms us.
Enormous traffic
We at Tennisnet can confirm all this. Articles and live ticker around Dominic Thiem provide access records, Facebook postings for jubilee comments - the whole of Austria is happy! But what happens only when he is actually the new number 1 in the world?