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Daniel Altmaier before jumping into the top 100
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Here Daniel Altmaier is happy about his first round win against the Argentine Genaro Alberto Olivieri at the tournament in Lüdenscheid.
Photo: imago images / Hasenkopf / Juergen Hasenkopf via www.imago-images.de
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Krefeld The tennis professional from St. Hubert won the ATP Challenger tournament in Lüdenscheid on Sunday and moved up to 106th place in the world rankings. The 22-year-old is now fourth in the German ranking.
(lus) When tennis professional Daniel Altmaier from St. Hubert won the final of the Sauerland Open in Lüdenscheid on Sunday against the Chilean Nicolás Jarry 7: 6, 4: 6, 6: 3 and the moderator announced that the winner was now the top -100 in the world rankings, the 22 year old looked at his cell phone and shouted to him, “No, 106”. He is now fourth-best German in the ARP rankings behind Alexander Zwerev, Jan-Lennard Struff and Dominik Koepfer.
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For Altmaier, who last reached the semifinals at the ATP tournaments in Kitzbühel and Umag, it was the second title on the ATP Challenger Tour after the success in Braunschweig in July. “Playing in your own country is always something very special,” he said after the award ceremony. Rank 106 is the best position of his career so far, which was already marked by injuries and setbacks. But he has never lost sight of his goal of being among the top 100 professionals in the world as quickly as possible. Since 2019 the
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Argentinian Francisco Yunis is his coach, who has made a significant contribution to the positive sporting development of his protégé. “Francisco has now been with me completely for 90 days and now has to go back home,” said Altmaier at the award ceremony in Lüdenscheid and was pleased that these 90 days ended with a tournament victory.
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“You always have to stick with it and have confidence in your abilities. The good results are now confirmation of this. I’ve played a lot of matches recently and that’s how I found my consistency. So I got along better week after week. The Challenger win was very important to me. I’ve been playing these tournaments for almost three years – and finally wanted to win something like that, ”he said in an RP interview after his victory in Braunschweig.
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