Marathon man in Africa: Young star Schwärzler continues to advance

Austria is hoping for a very strong fighting performance Joel Schwärzler these days at Challenger in Kigali, Rwanda shown. The 20-year-old from Vorarlberg had already fended off no less than ten match points on Wednesday before he returned 3:23 hours Zdenek Kolar (CZE) 4:6,7:6,7:6 defeated. And on Thursday he also defeated the top seeded Argentinian Marco Trungelliti 3:23 hours 7:6,6:7,7:6 and used the sixth match point.

In the semi-finals the protégé of an ex-Daviscup player meets Markus Hipfl now to the Italian Marco Cecchinato. Should Schwärzler qualify for a Challenger final again, as he did last week in Lugano, then he will improve for the first time Top 200. In the live ranking he is currently 202nd placed better than ever before.

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