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Fighting spirit wins: Rathammer wins incredible tennis title!
Peter Rathammer surprisingly wins the state tennis championship title after a thrilling final against Daniel Meier on February 7, 2025.
Fighting spirit wins: Rathammer wins incredible tennis title!
In a spectacular tournament at the Austrian Senior Indoor Tennis National Championships 2025, Peter Rathammer secured the championship title in a memorable final. The 7th seed Rathammer, who recently announced his retirement from championship tennis, took on the number 1 seed Daniel Meier. After a catastrophic first set, which Meier clearly won 6-0 in just 22 minutes, Rathammer already seemed to be on the losing end. But as Rathammer himself noted: "Losing a set like that was hard. Nevertheless, I believed that I could make it tighter and looked for solutions," said the 45-year-old from Lower Austria.
The turning point came in the second set. Rathammer changed his game and turned the game around by clearly winning the second set 6-0. The exciting atmosphere of the game increased as the spectators watched on as Rathammer finally secured the title with a score of 10-7 in the decisive match tie break. “I have never experienced a match like this in 40 years of tennis,” he said after the fascinating fight and emphasized that he had already expected an early withdrawal after the first set. But his tireless efforts and tactics catapulted him to a triumphant victory.
How to count in tennis: useful information for spectators
The tennis scoring system, which can be a bit confusing for many newcomers, plays a crucial role in such exciting games. A match is generally decided by winning sets, with a set being won when a player has won six service games and the opponent has won fewer than five. If both players manage to win six service games, a tie-break is played, which decides the game more quickly and increases the tension, as was the case in the incredible Rathammer final. How Tennis weblog As explained, the score in the game is of great importance to the viewer: "0" is counted as "Love", and the points are counted in a special order (0-15-30-40), which adds an additional charm to the dynamics and drama of the game.