Austria’s youngsters are currently taking on extremely strong international competition at the 3rd Carinthian Juniors Trophy 2023 powered by Fresacher in Wolfsberg. And so it happened that following the first main round of the ITF-J100 carpet tournament at TC Neudau, which was organized by the already proven tournament management duo Gernot Dreier and Julia Adlbrecht with their own team, there were only three domestic aces left in the individual race. ÖTV contract player Piet Luis Pinter has reached the round of 16 in Carinthia with boys as well as Lilli Tagger and Alexandra Zimmer with girls.
Pinter and Tagger showed good nerves in their first round successes. The 17-year-old Burgenlander (ITF 363) defeated the Slovenian qualifier Miha Bajzelj (ITF 1465) 6: 1, 6: 7 (3), 7: 5 and now challenges the fifth-ranked, 15-year-old Croatian Duje Markovina (ITF 268 ). The 15-year-old East Tyrolean (ITF 695), on the other hand, defeated Brooklyn Olson (ITF 433) from the USA 6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 6 (2) and now gets it with the third seeded Slovakian Lucia Hradecka (ITF 323) of the same age. to do. Zimmer, however, was very confident at the start: The seventh-placed Lower Austrian (ITF 362) finished off the Croatian Leticia Tarocco (ITF 453) 6: 1, 6: 1 and played once morest the Hungarian Melinda Biro (ITF 600), once morest whom she had a 1-0 record for a spot in the quarterfinals.
The Viennese Janis Graski just missed a big surprise: The ÖTV contract player (ITF 444) lost to the top seeded French Julien Leroux (ITF 130) only in the tie-break of the third set – 3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 7 ( 0) was what he said at the end from his point of view. The ÖTV contract player Leonie Rabl also missed a bigger coup: The 15-year-old from Burgenland (ITF 801) lost once morest the eighth-ranked Czech Viktorie Zidelova (ITF 369) 6: 3, 4: 6, 1: 6. Otherwise only Nico Hipfl, who lost following leading the set, managed to win a set. Felix Fischer, Max Kohler, Nikola Kollaritsch, Stella Horacek, Theresa Stabauer, Johanna Hiesmair and Emma Leitner were eliminated in straight sets.
Here are all the results of the ITF J100 tournament in Wolfsberg.
