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23 Jun2019

Kudermetova from Russia and Medjedovic from Serbia- two 16-year-olds win the popular title

Blue skies, Sahara sun and more than 500 spectators in the Steffi Graf stadium were ideal conditions for the singles finals of the International German Junior Championships 2019 at the traditional club LTTC "Rot-Weiss" at the Hundekehle.

In the final of the juniors, 18-year-old Hannah Viller Moller from Copenhagen and two years younger Polina Kudermetova from Moscow faced each other. While the Dane had to go through three sets in three matches in her previous matches of the tournament, the Russian's way into the final was easier. The number 7 of the seeeding list didn´t give away a single set until the final. And she also dominated the final from first rally on.

With successful stops, but also precise and powerful blows, she unnerved her opponent. After the 6:2 in the first set, she grudged the Danish a game and made her victory with a 6-0. The Danish Ambassador in Berlin, Friis Arne Petersen, cheered up the fair loser.

For the males, 16-year-old Serb Hamad Medjedovic, who already had won an ITF tournament in New Dehli in 2019, met Samuel Vincent Ruggeri, one year older, from Italy. Medjedovic seeded at six was considered the favorite. He shone with stops that Ruggeri often answered with cross counter stops. It was a match at eye level, for which the audience did not spare with applause. At the score of 5: 5, the Italian took the serve from his opponent and led 6: 5. But Medjedovic countered with a break to 6:6: tie break. The Serb had a luckier hand with 7:6 (4). He swam on a wave of success and broke the serve of his opponent in the first game of the second set. He led 5-2, had the first match points. The fifth clapped on the sideline. Excited about the victory in Berlin, he threw himself into the red sand.

Klaus Eberhard, sports director of the German Tennis Association, said at the awards ceremony: "The names of the two 16-year-old winners will also be heard in the future. World stars start their careers here in the Steffi Graf Stadium ".

graf

Steffi Graf (GER)

1982

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Ivan Lendl (CSSR)

1977

 

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Boris Becker (GER)

1982

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Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)

2010

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