US Open: German-Austrian double duel in the second round?
Philipp Oswald (together with Robin Haase ) could face the German top duo Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies in the second round of the doubles competition at this year's US Open.
by Stefan Bergmann
last edit: Aug 29, 2022, 04:08 pm
Fortuna did not mean well with the German tennis professionals and the only Austrian representative in the draw for the US Open 2022 in men's singles: While Dominic Thiem, who is slowly approaching the top of the world again, with the Montreal champion Pablo Carreno Busta from Spain " was blessed", the men of the DTB were presented with consistently seeded players as opponents at the start.
In the doubles competition, the usual suspects will start for Germany and Austria - although the Alpine country must be spoken in the singular. The big double days, when Julian Knowle, Alexander Peya, Oliver Marach and Jürgen Melzer were still a good number of team players in the Grand Slam grids, are now modern history. Only Philipp Oswald doesn't leave a complete hole, the Vorarlberger recently teamed up with Robin Haase and has already been able to celebrate a few small, fine successes with the Dutchman.
German teams are seeded
For Germany, the top duo Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies - ranked twelve in New York - are trumps. The two-time French Open winners reached the semi-finals in Flushing Meadows in 2019 and failed in the round of eight last year. Tim Pütz, who placed fourth with his New Zealand standard partner Michael Venus, still has a certain debt to bring in the US metropolis of millions, and was only once (2018) in the second round.
In any case, the raffle gave Pütz a feasible lot: The German-Dutch team meets Andrey Golubev (Kazakhstan) and Pedro Martinez (Spain) in round one. In a possible second round, either the two Portuguese Nuno Borgen and Francisco Cabral or the Ecuadorian-Mexican mix Nicolas Barrientos Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela could wait.
If Oswald/Haase are victorious against Ilya Ivashka (Belarus) and Sonwoo Kwon (South Korea) and Krawietz/Mies can also keep local heroes Marcos Giron and Mackenzie McDonald under control, there would be a game pairing with a certain explosiveness in round two - that would be the case the Austrian and the two Germans clashed. Hopefully it wouldn't be the only highlight for the patriotic soul in the later days of the tournament.
Here the double tableau from New York.
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