Second Bundesliga Tennis
The tennis season in the Second Bundesliga South promises to be an exciting one. The competition is strong. But the TC Wolfsberg is prepared.
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Photo: Harry Rubner
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In the Berkersheimer Weg in Frankfurt, the clocks tick a little differently. At least a little different than in the jewelery and watch town of Pforzheim. The TC Wolfsberg has belonged to the Second Tennis Bundesliga since 2002. But the competition never sleeps.
Financially, too, there don’t seem to be too many limits to one or the other club – corona pandemic or not. The Frankfurter Tennisclub (FTC) Palmengarten is a climber from the regional league before the first rallies this weekend.
Many, including Thomas Hell, the team manager of TC Wolfsberg, see Hesse as the clear favorite for promotion to the first Bundesliga.
“Palm Garden wants to rise. They are above everything. And only then do the other teams come,” says Hell. The balance of the FTC in the past regional league season Southwest already made you sit up and take notice. Six wins in six games, 43:11 match points, 91:30 sets. In Constantin Schmitz, the first German player was listed in tenth place. In the second division, he was the first German to move three places down.
The conditions that one finds on the Berkersheimer Weg facility give an idea of the striving for greater goals. A modern three-field air dome has recently been installed. This means that the courts can be covered over the winter months and can continue to be played on sand.
TC Wolfsberg continues to rely on young German tennis players
Thomas Hell, however, is preparing for what he can influence together with Alexander Flock, who is available as a trainer and contact person in an advisory capacity. This year’s season will be another challenging one. Especially for a club like TC Wolfsberg, which, unlike many of its competitors, is increasingly focusing on young, hungry German players.
TC Wolfsberg is initially challenged twice away
The tennis aces initially start with two away games. The match at TV Reutlingen this Sunday (11 a.m.) will be followed by the match at TC Würzburg next Friday (1 p.m.). On Sunday, July 24 (11 a.m.), TC Wolfsberg has home rights against TC Augsburg Siebentisch for the first time.
The TC Wolfsberg team: 1st Otto Virtanen (Finland), 2nd Dan Added (France), 3rd Jeremy Jahn, 4th Roberto Cid Subervi (Dominican Republic), 5th Stefano Napolitano (Italy), 6th Patrick Zahraj, 7th Ricardo Bellotti (Italy ), 8th Johann Willems, 9th Pascal Meis, 10th Luc Fomba (France), 11th Tim Rühl, 12th David Fix, 13th Albano Olivetti (France), 14th Julius Hell, 15th Justin Schlageter, 16th Marko Lenz, 17. Fabrice Martin (France), 18. Alexander Flock.
The game dates: Sunday, July 17, 11 a.m.: TV Reutlingen – TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim; Friday, July 22, 1 p.m.: TC Weiß-Blau Würzburg – TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim; Sunday, July 24, 11 a.m.: TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim – TC Augsburg Siebentisch; Friday, July 29, 1 p.m.: TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim – TC Weinheim; Sunday, July 31, 11 a.m.: TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim – FTC Palmengarten; Friday, August 5, 1 p.m.: TC BW Oberweier – TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim; Sunday, August 7, 11 a.m.: TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim – TEC Waldau Stuttgart; Friday, August 12, 1 p.m.: Spvgg Hainsacker – TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim; Sunday, August 14, 11 a.m.: TC Wolfsberg Pforzheim – 1. FC Nürnberg.
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The same club that, after last season, in which TC Wolfsberg took a good fourth place, would have been relegated as a winless tail light. Since, in the opinion of the Augsburgers, their opponents Würzburg should have made a line-up mistake, the club complained. There was even a civil case.
After a long back and forth, the Hamburg Regional Court finally upheld Augsburg’s lawsuit – also because the German Tennis Association (DTB) decided not to go to the Higher Regional Court so as not to further delay and thus endanger the season plans of all clubs.
We need to score from day one.
Thomas Hell, Teammanager TC Wolfsberg
In the end, it was decided to increase the Second Bundesliga South to ten teams. “For us, this means that we have five home games for the first time since 2011,” says Hell. A drop of bitterness in a cup of joy: After the last matchday on August 14th, three clubs were relegated. That’s another reason why it’s clear that we “have to score points from day one,” said Hell. “We have had to tremble again and again over the years. But playing against relegation is very exhausting.”
They are very, very heavily manned from start to finish.
TCW newcomer Jeremy Jahn on the favorite FTC Palmengarten
Jeremy Jahn, newcomer to TC Wolfsberg and last year in the premier league at champion TK GW Mannheim, adds: “We’ll have to see how things go this year. But the goal is always to have the best possible season.” The role of favourite? He also blames it on the FTC Palmengarten. “They are very, very strong from start to finish. It will definitely be a tough game.” However, Jeremy Jahn and Thomas Hell also agree on this: The other eight matches will be the same.
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