Austria’s Billie Jean King Cup Win Secures World Group Play-Off Promotion

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TENNIS. Billie Jean King Cup, Europe-Africa Zone, Oeiras (Portugal). After a 2-1 win against the (albeit second to third team) from Hungary, Austria’s women’s team has already secured promotion to the play-off round of the World Group as preliminary group winners. Now it’s all about winning the tournament in Oeiras against the other group winners. Sinja Kraus, who had given Austria the lead against Nagy (WTA No. 742), secured the 2-1 with partner Melanie Klaffner after Julia Grabher’s defeat (1:6, 3:6 against Natalia Szabanin, No. 601). After a 1:6, Kraus-Klaffner turned the match against Nagy-Szabanin 6:1 and 10:5 in the champions tiebreak.

ATP Masters 1000, Monte Carlo; 2. Runde. Despite a passable performance, Sebastian Ofner was once again unable to win a set against Alexander Zverev – 3:6, 4:6. Novak Djokovic, who has replaced Roger Federer as the oldest and longest in the world rankings, swept Russian Wimbledon quarter-finalist Safiullin 6-1, 6-2. Furthermore: Struff (D) – Coric (Kro) 7:6, 6:1, Hurkacz (Pol) – Draper (GB) 6:4, 3:6, 7:6, de Minaur (Aus) – Wawrinka (Sz) 6:3, 6:0, Bautista Agut (Spa) – Diaz Acosta (Arg) 6:2, 6:1, Korda (USA) – Davidovich Fokina (Spa) 6:2, 6:1, Zhang (China) – Giron (USA) 6:4, 3:6, 6:§; M. Etcheverry (Arg) – Jarry (Chile) 6:4, 7:5,

ATP Challenger, $75,000, Sarasota (Florida). 1st round: Austria’s great young hope Joel Josef Schwärzler lost at the start against the American Tristan Boyer, who was hovering around 200, 2:6, 6:4, 5:7.

SOCCER: Women’s European Championship qualification. After the bitter 2:3 home defeat against Germany, Austria preserved their direct chance of qualifying with a 3:1 win against the Poles, who were still pointless. The away game was on a knife edge in the end as Poland pushed for an equalizer at 1-2, but Eileen Campbell made it 3-1 with a counter-attack goal. The playoff is now against Iceland (also 3 points from 2 games).

SKI. Austrian Championships, Downhill, Reiteralm: Otmar Striedinger won ahead of Danklmaier, Matteo Haas and Eichberger. – Women: Young hopeful Len Wechner won ahead of Ricarda Haas, Emily Schöpf and Christina Ager. Raedler and Puchner were eliminated.

International German Ski Championships in Pfelders, South Tyrol: Super G: With Bayern’s Simon Jocher winning again, Johannes Strolz was the best Austrian in 8th place, while Kilian Pramstaller, the second best Austrian, couldn’t get past 22nd place.

2024-04-09 19:08:38
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