Tennis Bundesliga
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The HTC Blau-Weiss Krefeld line-up is set
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Marco Cecchinato continues to serve for Blau-Weiss Krefeld in the Bundesliga.
Photo: Lammertz, Thomas (lamb)
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Krefeld The registration period for the ten teams in the Tennis Bundesliga has expired. Marco Cecchinato is the number 1 of the city forest team. The Italian is currently number 108 in the world rankings.
When the Bundesliga tennis club HTC Blau-Weiss Krefeld welcomes the Niederrhein rivals Gladbacher HTC to the season opener on July 3rd, the Stadtwald team will be up against a title contender, at least on paper. Because the squad of the runner-up of 2021 is impressive with six players who are currently among the top 100. This also includes St. Hubert’s Daniel Altmaier (ATP 69).
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In contrast, there is currently no player in the top 100 for the Krefeld team. Marco Cecchinato missed entering the main draw at the ATP tournament in Monte Carlo and slipped from 100th to 108th place. On Easter Monday he met his compatriot Fabio Fognini (ATP 62) in the first round of the ATP tournament in Belgrade and lost 7: 6, 2: 6, 2: 6 after almost three hours.
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Thiago Monteiro was beaten by Argentinian Marco Trungelitti 6: 7, 6: 7 in the semifinals of the Challenger in Madrid and reached the main draw at the ATP tournament in Belgrade on Sunday. Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas, who was not used last year, injured himself at the ATP tournament in Houston in early April and has been on a break ever since.
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After the registration deadline for the ten clubs has expired, the final ranking of the squads will be determined after the French Open in Paris. It is already foreseeable that the blue and whites will initially have to keep their class. That should also apply to Neuss and Ludwigshafen. All other teams are equipped with plenty of top players. This also includes promoted TC Bredeney, who was even able to lure Krefeld’s ex-veteran Jürgen Melzer from Austria with plenty of euros. Five players left the Stadtwald from last year’s team, which finished eighth, including Gianluca Mager, who now serves for Kurhaus Aachen. The club signed five new players. Gian Marco Moroni and Luciano Darderi, who reached the quarter-finals at the Challenger tournament in Barletta over Easter, are among the team’s ten Italians. There are also the Portuguese Gastao Elias, the Romanian Marius Copil and the only 18-year-old Frenchman Sascha Guemand Wayenburg.
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The line-up by ranking position (as of April 18): Marco Cecchinato (108), Juan Pablo Varillas (109), Thiago Monteiro (110), Stefano Travaglia (114), Flavio Cobolli (143), Gastao Elias (154), Gian Marco Moroni (181), Federico Gaio (185), Luciano Darderi (202), Andrea Arnaboldi (226), Marius Copil (234), Andrea Collarini (257), Sascha Guemand Wayenburg (648), Enrico Dalla Valle (715), Simone Bolelli (20 Doppel), Tom Schöneberg.
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