Oscar who? For local Fans, the Cologne is not Unknown, after all, he was in 2015, a German Tennis champion. However, since the duel with Roger Federer in Paris and many other have noticed the name. A Trip Report.
The thing with the towel must be discussed. Clearly, the journey of the Cologne tennis pros Oscar Otte, 25 years old, ATP rank list robot position 144 to the French Open and Paris was full of highlights. It is to be. But the number with the towel says Know much about the man, the Bundesliga club KTHC Stadion Rot -. It’s one of those little big stories at the edge of the Tennis tournament of Roland-Garros.
“Unbelievable, just crazy,”
The scene described: Otte, who was slipped only by the verletzungsbedintgte cancellation of Nick Kyrgios as a Lucky Loser to the main draw, had won his on Eurosport transmitted first-round Match against a certain Malek Jaziri from Tunisia, and then as King Kong, his joy out of yelling. He grabbed after the Handshake is complete, the bag and threw it, as it is so beautiful usual, one of the official towels in the direction of a young viewer on the edge of the Court 6, a space in which the spectators are very close to the action. However, a rather stocky built man to handle faster, the Little threatened to come away empty-handed. As Otte took a towel from the bag and wore concern that it would reach this time his receiver.
“Yes, the towels are very sought after and also pretty expensive if you buy them,” says Otte, back in Germany after a tournament trip, which was in his previous life as a tennis professional, probably the most eventful. For the first time, he was in Paris in the second round of such big tournament, and took at the end of 87,000 euros in prize money from the French capital. And if you know how much professional tennis athletes need to turn around below rank 100 on your Tour around the world, every Dollar, every Euro, then one can imagine how successful the French Open for Otte were. And that he is now all the rage. “My phone crashed, so many messages I have received,” says Otte. The whole day, he added, “was amazing, just crazy”.
The madness was in the second round, Court Philippe-Chatrier in the West of Paris. 15.059 viewers. Oscar Otte against Roger Federer. If the Cologne for “the KTHC Stadion Rot-hits-and-White at home, also because time with more than 200 kilometres an hour, sometimes two to three thousand spectators on the plant at the Olympiaweg. “And also because the mood is terrific,” says Otte. But of course this is a Dimension other than the Grand-Slam-tournament in Paris.
193 centimeters
“The money is not important, but now the focus,” said Otte in an interview with DW. That he has lost, is now known. But the way he has lost, must be observers, even days later, tremendous respect. At 3:3 in the first sentence, there was a scene in which the 193 centimetres in size, and thus, occasionally, some lanky-looking Otte takes a seat in the mains and a Ball from Federer wegpflückt, as if it were nothing. Or a different scene in the third set: same, 4:4. Otte takes Federer with a Stop to the front and passes him cross. You have to trust yourself against the best tennis players in the history only once.
And then it’s over: Otte congratulates Federer
Because the man from Switzerland, however, is perhaps the best tennis player of the history, the match after one hour and 36 minutes, smooth in his favor at the end of – 4:6, 3:6, 4:6 from the point of view of Otte. “In crucial moments, as the up, is again a compact, begins to moan and plays again, a stroke better,” describes Otte Federer’s game in these moments. Then it’s over. Handshake. “Well done,” have Federer said after the reminder Ottes in the network. And this smiled, looked happy. To have happy about with the giants on the other hand, is a piece of kept pace. “I didn’t know his game at all,” said Federer after the Match and added: “There’s one from the qualification, you don’t know at all suddenly. It was very complicated, I’m very relieved.”
Lost against a twelve-year-older man. “Age plays no role,” says Otte. “So fit, you know, there’s no difference,” said the German, who trained at the weekend with his Coach Peter Moraing in Mülheim an der Ruhr, and then his bag Packed to travel to the much smaller Challenger tournament to Poznan in Poland. He wants to come back to Paris, back to the Center Court, this is not a question. Be lucky – and even that is not a signatory to the man from the South of Cologne – depends on but. A Reporter from the Tennis tour talk asked a few years ago, which three players he wanted to invite to a house party, said he is not Federer, Nadal, Djokovic. He called Andreas Mies, Dustin Brown and Yannis Kahlke – three pals from the Tennis League. Almost needless to say that he is a Jersey of the local 1. FC Cologne wore.