Tennis, Second Bundesliga South Men
QOOL TC Weiß-Blau Würzburg – TEC Waldau Stuttgart 6:3
SpVgg Hainsacker – QOOL TC Weiß-Blau Würzburg 4: 5
Just looking at the live ticker of the match between Weiß-Blau Würzburg and Hainsacker in the second tennis Bundesliga South made hands sweaty. The tension on the spot made itself felt. Because with the intermediate score of 4: 4, the ultimately decisive doubles of Würzburg’s Benjamin Winter Lopez and Filip Bergevi had to go into the match tiebreak.
It always takes a good portion of luck. The Würzburg team lacked that at first and they were 1:4 and 5:7 behind. That got the pulse of the viewers racing. Strong nerves were now required from the players and the scenery alike. Winter Lopez and Bergevi had them, fought their way up and took the lead 8:7. Winter Lopez acknowledged the point to 9:7 with leaps of joy, thinking that the game was already won.
Match tiebreak brings the decision in favor of white-blue
However, he had to focus again to convert the match point to 10:7 on his own serve. The tension on site erupted in jubilation. For Winter Lopez, the narrow 9:11 in the match tie-break of his singles was forgotten. He would have struggled with that if he lost.
Swam over it. “A top performance,” said team captain Johannes Markel and white-blue president Joachim Kuhn in unison. Which had not necessarily been taken into account, because the opponent had worked their way up to second place halfway through the season: a well-stocked squad with many experienced players who used to be on the ATP tour and were really good there.
For example, number one: Guido Andreozzi, who was ranked 70th in the world at his best times in early 2019. Würzburg’s Adrian Andreev struggled with him and did it brilliantly. After a 0:4 in the first set, he showed great fighter heart and got this round. “It was the highest level,” said Markel. A break in the second set led to 3:6 and thus the match tiebreak. Andreev won this and made it 4:2 after the singles.
Home game moved from outdoors to indoors due to darkness
The first home win two days earlier against TEC Waldau Stuttgart had put the Würzburg team in a good mood. Although the course of this game was spectacular due to two rain interruptions and the relocation of the last two doubles games to the hall because of darkness, the positive outcome made up for it. “That win was huge,” said Markel.
Not only for the points account, but even more for the team spirit and the self-confidence of the players. “Everyone played better after the defeat against Pforzheim,” said Markel. The team’s joint training week in Würzburg also made a decisive contribution to this. On a side note: after the win in Hainsacker, the team no longer had to think about a present for Alexander Donski, who celebrated his 24th birthday the following day.
In Nuremberg, the Würzburger strive for the next victory
The mandatory task now is to win at least one more game. “Then the league is secured with three possible relegations,” says Markel. With a target strength of the league of nine teams, the tenth team has to be relegated anyway, unless the association decides to compete with ten teams next year. But that should remain an exception. If two teams from the first division are relegated to the southern division of the second division, two more teams have to go down from there. “We should win in Nuremberg”, is Markel’s motto, “then we’ll be safe”.
Results, singles vs. Stuttgart: Andreev – Negritu 7:6 (4), 7:6 (5), Madarasz – Kestelboim 4:6, 6:4, 6:10, Fajta – Zeitvogel 6:1, 7:6 (2), Donski – Bensoussan 6 :2, 7:5, Winter Lopez – Scholl 4:6, 7:6 (7), 10:2, Bergevi – Hampe 4:6, 6:7. double: Fajta/Madarasz – Kestelboim/Zeitvogel 6:2 7:6 (3), Andreev/Donski – Negritu/Hoiss 6:7 (5), 7:6 (2), 9:11, Winter Lopez/Bergevi – Bensoussan/Hampe 6:1, 6:7 (5), 11:9.
Results, singles in Hainsacker: Andreozzi – Andreev 4: 6, 6: 3, 8:10, Jason – Madarasz 2: 6, 4: 6; Swifts – Fajta 7: 5, 6: 4; Duda – Donski 6: 7 (4), 6: 4, 8:10; Bahamonde – Winter Lopez 2: 6, 6: 2, 11: 9; Arauzo Martinez – Bergevi 2: 6, 1: 6. double: Giacalone / Rondoni – Madarasz / Fajta 6: 2, 6: 3; Andreozzi / Duda – Andreev / Donski 6: 4, 6: 4; Bahamonde / Florez – Winter Lopez / Bergevi 7: 6 (4), 3: 6, 7:10.
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