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Steib and Ilges-Junge won a top-level tournament in Göttingen
Tennis ranking tournament at the “House of Tennis” in Göttingen: finalist Michael Mirtchev, referee Wilhelm Holz and winner Mike Steib (from left).
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Göttingen. In the McClean-onp-Schwieger open, the males’s and girls’s tennis ranking tournament at the new Göttingen corridor at the GTC, Elisabeth Junge-Ilges from Erfurt, ranked 96 in Germany, and Mike Steib from Würzburg (quantity 113) carried out. At the so-called “Tennis House” at the backside of Göttingen’s metropolis forest, 40 gamers competed in the indoor A 6 tournament, which had a prize cash of round 1,500 euros – the preliminary spots have been shortly booked, the report stated. Tennis Academy South Lower Saxony (TAS).
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Junge-Ilges, seeded first, confronted fifth seed Pauline Bruns from Bad Homburg in the remaining. In the remaining held at a excessive stage, the favorites didn’t present their weaknesses and won with the rating 6:2 and 6:4. In the finish, the lady from Erfurt won the tournament with out dropping a set after 4 video games.
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A robust girls’s area at the Göttingen tournament
In the area of sturdy girls, native hero Marie Schulz from Göttingen competed nationally. The pupil defeated Wiesbaden’s Alicia Eberwein, ranked 303rd in the German girls’s rankings, 6-4, 6-7, 10-6 in an exhilarating first match. However, in the subsequent spherical, German quantity 191 Franziska Heinemann from Paderborn took the lead after two units.
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Tennis ranking tournament at the “House of Tennis” in Göttingen: winner Elisabeth Junge-Ilges, choose Wilhelm Holz and finalist Pauline Bruns (from left).
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Michael Mirtchev, who was and not using a prize in the males’s competitors, made a shock look in the finals. But right here he needed to bow to Staib with a rating of two:6 and 4:6 in a high-class match. On the approach to the remaining, Mirtchev beat the new head coach Antonio Klee in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Park space. After successful the first place, the power of the former ATP skilled ran out, so Mirtchev took a lead of 4: 6, 6: 1 and 10: 8 after nearly three hours of play.
Referee: “We noticed very sturdy tennis”
“We noticed very sturdy tennis,” concluded referee Wilhelm Holz. Staib, the winner of the males’s tournament, was additionally impressed with the new facility: “Great tournament, nice corridor,” he praised.
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Only the prime ranked German gamers have been seeded, together with prime German gamers equivalent to winners Steib and Junge-Ilges. “The improbable ground masking and general bundle attracted the greatest gamers to Göttingen,” stated Holtz after a grueling tournament with twelve gamers from 18 state associations and a complete enjoying time of 76 hours.