Austria’s tennis hope Joel Schwärzler reached his first future final in Antalya at the weekend, but lost the duel with top seed Filip Cristian Jianu for his first professional title 1:6,2:6.
The 22-year-old Romanian is 311th in the world rankings, the 18-year-old Schwärzler is outside the top 1,000. But that will change on Monday. Schwärzler celebrated the four victories leading up to the final against almost all higher-ranked opponents.
His coach Jürgen Melzer was satisfied with first place in the junior world rankings despite the final defeat. “If you exclude the final – he didn’t do anything wrong match after match. In the end you can build on that, first future final. I hope it continues like this.” Based on the final findings you would see what needs to be worked on.
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