2023-08-22 13:07:46
In the midst of feasible tasks, Dennis Novak mixes in a very high hurdle.
Curtain up for the last Grand Slam tournament of the year: This Tuesday, the US Open in New York will start with the qualification. This year, an ÖTV quintet is trying to get hold of one of the coveted places in the main competitions. Jurij Rodionov, Filip Misolic, Dennis Novak and Maximilian Neuchrist are at the start for the men, Sinja Kraus is the only red-white-red player for the women. Since Monday evening following CEST, the home aces now know their first opponent. The ÖTV gentlemen are all in the upper half of the grid.
The majority of the Austrian representatives caught feasible tasks in the draw. For example, Misolic (ATP 168) opens once morest the only 20-year-old Estonian newcomer Mark Lajal (ATP 246). Rodionov (ATP 102), on the other hand, starts in seventh place once morest the US wildcard player Patrick Kypson (ATP 274), who was in good form recently. Neuchrist (ATP 233) starts once morest a seed and can certainly calculate his chances once morest number 24 on the seeding list, Maximilian Marterer (ATP 129) from Germany. Only Novak (ATP 187) got an absolute hammer loss with fifth-seeded David Goffin (ATP 96): The ex-world number seven and four-time Grand Slam quarter-finalist from Belgium has to play one of the four biggest in Flushing Meadows for the first time since the 2012 French Open Tournaments back to the prelims.
However, Kraus (WTA 208) should have good cards to move into the second of the three qualifying rounds once morest Frenchwoman Alice Robbe (WTA 220). On Tuesday, only Rodionov will play his opening game, the other ÖTV aces will only be in action on Wednesday. From an Austrian point of view, Julia Grabher (WTA 54) and Sebastian Ofner (ATP 59) and Dominic Thiem (ATP 82) are firmly in the main competition. While Grabher made it into the round of 16 at the WTA 250 preparatory tournament in Cleveland on Monday, Ofner opened in round two once morest US wildcard player Alex Michelsen (ATP 133) on Tuesday at the ATP 250 hard court preparatory event in Winston-Salem. However, Thiem was unable to make use of his wildcard and had to cancel the first round appearance once morest Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (ATP 73). According to his brother and manager Moritz Thiem, the new Kitzbühel finalist is suffering from “a kind of gastritis”, is already in New York and hopes to get fit for the US Open in time.
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