Tennis

Tennis: Annika Beck creates the balance

You got the confidence of Team Boss Barbara Rittner and she has not disappointed: The 21-year-old Annika Beck has the Fed Cup quarter-finals for Germany scored. Now it comes in a Tennis Thriller on’s double.

Annika Beck

The beginning was nervous, but then came Annika Beck getting the better of the game. But it took more than an hour, until the Bonnerin at all the first set against the Swiss Timea Bacsinszky 7:5 decided for themselves. And the Tennis-crime of Leipzig took to The end was won by Annika Beck of the all important fourth single with 7:5, 6:4 and managed to achieve in their debut in the national team the equaliser for Germany. Two single won two singles released.

Kerbers battery was empty

Team Boss Barbara Rittner

Earlier, Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber in Leipzig in her match against the world ranking of Eleventh Belinda Bencic with 6:7 (4:7), 3:6 lost. A day after their significant success against Bacsinszky was Kerber also the exhaustion after the exertions of the past few days, it should be noted. “She really needs now is a long break,” said Team Boss Barbara Rittner after the Match. They paid tribute to their Top player but high respect for the use of, and also sports the Swiss woman a compliment. Bencic have in every Situation the Right thing.

Martina Hingis (right) and Belinda Bencic

Joker Martina Hingis?

Now there is in Leipzig in the run-up the expected Showdown: The double has to the quarter-finals to decide. The Swiss coach Heinz Günthardt, once as a Coach of Steffi Graf successes, has a Joker at the Start: With the 35-year-old Martina Hingis is one of the best Doppelspielerinnen the world in the Team, probably at the side of the Top Bencic. For the Team of the German Tennis Federation (DTB) of coach Barbara Rittner made Andrea Petkovic and the doubles are very strong – Anna-Lena Groenefeld warm.

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