“Freiburger TC suffers defeats in upper tennis league, but head coach remains optimistic”

The burden of a 4-2 deficit after the singles ended up being too great for both the FTC men and the club’s second women’s team. The FTC players lost 4:5 at home to TC 1923 Grenzach II, the women lost 3:6 to SK Ettlingen, who had been relegated to the Badenliga. “In the individual games, we missed a third point on both occasions to take something with us,” said trainer Eva Birkle-Belbl. “We still have a few options in terms of personnel.”

The individual victories of Martin Bürkle and Marcus Bierlein faced defeats of Vishnu Vardhan, Maximilian Schollmeyer, Jakub Kaminski and Dominic Palm. In the top singles, Indian Vardhan lost 6:7 and 4:6 to Swiss Batiste Guerra. Even the interim change to the hall because of rain didn’t throw the Grenzacher, who also had a strong Swiss player on two (Martin Poplawski won against the jetlag-weakened Schollmeyer), not out of rhythm.

For the FTC women, the established powers Magdalena Seng and Dorothea Saar scored in positions two and three, “at the back we were missing the youngsters who were otherwise always good for victories,” said Birkle-Belbl. Stella Schwörer will be out this summer with a torn cruciate ligament, Iris Danne (wrist problems) could be available again in a week or two. So there was only one victory in doubles by Magdalena Kaminski and Lea Hummel.