Wimbledon
Comment: Kerbers best defeat
Even when Angelique Kerber lost the final in Wimbledon against Serena Williams, can learn the German Tennis much of it, writes DW’s editor Marko Langer. Especially in terms of network.
It has once again come true, the quote from Rudyard Kipling about the door to the Centre Court of the All England Lawn and Tennis Club. Because victory and defeat, actually all is one. “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same”, it says. Translated, this means approximately: “If You can accept Triumph and defeat, and both as a fraud, see…”
What is Angelique Kerber at this 9. July 2016 in Wimbledon in spite of the
5:7, 3:6 against Serena Williams reached, is perhaps even more valuable than her first Grand Slam victory at the beginning of the year at the Australian Open. The victory in defeat, and raised the main to see that to reach in the near future is: A school of life, this is sports.
Flashback : she wanted to “enjoy everything and take it with you” after the success, had said Angelique Kerber. That was in January. The best tennis player of Germany had just the best tennis player in the world, Serena Williams,
in the final of the Australian Open beaten. “Take everything,” said Kerber, less the whopping prize money, but more the attention. Interviews, television appearances, sponsors, dates, and, and, and …
Rittner and the Porsche Deal
Fed Cup-Head Rittner (R) with Kerber
Barbara Rittner, the national coach and Fed Cup Boss, was in concern for your player. You knew very well how much the power of the Grand Slam had tasted victory. And that Kerber then both
a Fed Cup Match as well as at smaller tournaments, and even
in the first round of the French Open, lost, gave Rittner law.
It is not necessary to mention the name of Barbara Rittner very early, if you want to explain the success of Kerbers. She was the one that moved in 2011, the sponsors deal with Porsche for your wife’s team (and thus also for Kerber). She was the one that made the individualist inside of a leading international Team. It is also (see above), which speaks in a doubt open critical words. Well the game are deliberate, if you listen to Barbara Rittner.
“I have the best Team there,” cried Kerber on Saturday after the defeat at Wimbledon. Torben Beltz is another Name you have to be up early to call when it comes to Kerbers success. Since the youth days of Itzehoe-born Coach knows the player. They went in the meantime, our separate ways. However, Kerber was not so wise, before the decisive Phase of your career again – also for his boundless optimism, well-known Trainer. All the other players, who give either the dad, or a rapidly rotating circle of the practice managers attention, can cut off a slice.
Advantage Network
And the family, of course, is grounding and protecting. But one point is crucial for the development of Kerbers and perhaps for the expansion of this sport in Germany: Barbara Rittner is now the partner of the previous Porsche, and today’s VW boss Matthias Müller (also in London in Kerbers Box), and that the Federal economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel to Rittners circle of friends, not only means that the two mighty and Tennis-playing men have a good private trainer. Above all, it shows how much can depend on such a network. That even in times of VW-crisis Porsche (at least publicly) and was not open to discussion, shows that the Marketing tool for the sports car has been proven to the manufacturer.
Not a Sport for the big TV audience
DW editor Marko Long
And the Association? Well, you should not be unfair: The initially as a compromise candidate, eyeing the President of the German Tennis Federation, Ulrich Klaus, has it succeeded fully, the Squabbles and intrigues, which prevailed among his self-conscious predecessors, the prevailing curb. The DTB was used to long, of the supposedly good old to dream so lucrative hours of TV marketing (with the help of Boris Becker and Steffi Graf). Over! Tennis is not a sport for a large TV audience (and more), but also internationally in the hands of investment joyful specialists: ESPN, Discovery, Eurosport, Sky, High. Their businesses run with the help of the attractive Marketing product, Tennis in the digital age, getting better and better.
So it would be too little to just wait on the next final with Angelique Kerber. What to do now with us:
– Because Tennis is such an elegant and attractive Sport, it should be able to find for the young work men a Partner, following the example of Porsche. With Alexander Zverev, a German Communist, in the world’s top, should be helpful. Also, the TV cooperation agreement with Sat.1 / ran could get a different value.
– Young talent is so important to children and young people to this Sport. Idols help. It is problematic, however, is that, in the meantime, not only in the Tennis League, but even four classes including (top League!) Joining bonuses for foreign players will be paid. This must at least be more limited.
The DTB has 18 (!) Member – country associations. Particularism has a long Tradition here. Some of the performance centres, to breathe the fragrance of the 80s. In the UK, for example, the young has and young people a more modern face. In this country, however, it is missing, for example, to surface their partnerships with schools ceiling.
The chronically tight bandage needs no professional functionaries. It needs but the determination to consolidate the energies, to take advantage of the new Boom.
– “Lighthouse”-events such as the lawn tournament in the Westphalian city of Halle, or now in the Stuttgart Weissenhof Club may not only depend on how the respective sponsors. Whether it is possible in a Hamburg tournament Director Michael Stich, the tradition of ATP-rich-to get the tournament live?
Tennis is a great Sport. It is a school of life, and sometimes it is more important to lose with their heads held high than to win somehow. Angelique Kerber has worn on Saturday with a victory.
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