Tennis: SG duo wins doubles tournament in Zolling
Created: 01/11/2023, 07:00
By: Olaf Heid
Convinced as a double: Florian Hennig (TC Zorneding/left) and Michael Fuchs (SC Baldham-Vaterstetten).
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A tennis duo from the district achieved great success at the high-class 43rd Zollinger Drei-King-Tournament.
District – Michael Fuchs (SC Baldham-Vaterstetten/performance class 7.1) and Florian Hennig (TC Zorneding/2.0) won the competition in the men's doubles as unseeded.
The Ebersberg combination had to play three times in the renovated Zollinger Halle.
At the start she wasn't really challenged against Stefan Hegedusch (5.7)/Marcus Lehner (10.9) from SpVgg Zolling (6:0, 6:2).
The SCBV-TCZ duo plays together as a syndicate at the men's 30th state division team in Zorneding, but "played doubles together exactly once in the league games in the previous summer and then lost," said Hennig with a laugh.
“We had a lot of fun in Zolling.
The tournament was well organized and we got plenty of match practice.”
After the 6:3 and 6:4 success in the semifinals against Daniel Geiger/Hans Weindl from TC Grün-Weiß Vilsbiburg (LK 2.7/5.2), they stayed on the court to play the final straight away.
Round one against two 18-year-old youngsters from TC Hengersberg, Christoph Größl/Markus Braun (LK 4.3/7.1), was still contested with 7:5, after that the young seniors from the Ebersberg district had everything under control.
Fuchs/Hennig won the match 6:1 and were happy about their prize, a meal voucher.
"We redeemed it for pizza and Spezi on the spot," explained Hennig with a laugh.
It had been the only matches on the final day of this three-day tournament for both of them.
Because before that, both had also started in the men's singles, but had missed the semi-finals.
The 36-year-old Zornedinger had won his three matches in the group phase with ease, but was then defeated in the quarter-finals by Andreas Werz (TC Rot-Weiß Freising/2.5), eleven years his junior, 4:6 and 2:6.
The 32-year-old fox, on the other hand, had to put up with three narrow defeats in his group as a player with the clearly lowest performance class.
He even missed a match point against Größl before losing 6:2, 6:7 and 1:10.
His conclusion after the tournament: “It was my first tournament in a good ten years.
It was really fun to compete with the really good players again.” Fuchs admitted with a laugh that he would have noticed the lack of match practice and fitness at crucial moments.
"It's easier to hide that in doubles when it's more about tactics and coordination."
