2023-10-22 09:08:19
The ÖTV contract player celebrates the greatest Austrian youth successes back-to-back since Dominic Thiem in 2011.
2015 Andrey Rublev (current ATP rank 5), 2016 Seongchan Hong (ATP 197), 2017 Emil Ruusuvuori (ATP 61), 2018 Brandon Nakashima (ATP 134), 2019 Holger Rune (ATP 6) – and 2023 Joel Schwärzler: Austria’s currently The greatest tennis talent sensationally entered the sometimes very prominent list of winners of the 2023 ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Finals in Chengdu this Sunday. The third-ranked Vorarlberg player (ITF 7) prevailed in the final in a left-handed duel once morest the top-seeded Mexican Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez (ITF 2), his roommate in the Chinese province of Sichuan, 6:3, 7:6 (6).
Just last week, Schwärzler achieved the greatest Austrian youth success since Dominic Thiem’s coup at the Orange Bowl in Plantation in 2011 with his triumph at the Osaka Mayor’s Cup (ITF J500). The 17-year-old managed to top this already impressive milestone in his young career just a week later. With this title, the Harder not only secured a travel allowance of 17,000 US dollars, but also 750 points for the youth world rankings. On Monday he will have the best ITF ranking of an Austrian since Thiem, who once made it to second place on January 3, 2011.
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