Tennis Challenger:
Mauthausen “star” has a sad secret
The Tennis Challenger event in Mauthausen is slowly entering the hot phase. On Wednesday and Thursday, the round of 16 will be played at the Danube Upper Austria Open by SKE, in which four Austrians have entered - as well as a French former top 10 player, who later suffered a brutal mental crash.
Four Austrians are in the round of 16 at the Danube Upper Austria Open by SKE in Mauthausen. After Filip Misolic, Lukas Neumayer, Gerald Melzer and Joel Schwärzler also won. "I stayed calm in the decisive moments," said the No. 1 in the junior world rankings, who plays for Mauthausen in the Bundesliga, after beating the German qualifier Mats Rosenkranz 7:6, 6:4. Dennis Novak, meanwhile, was eliminated - against Lucas Pouille!
"It's terrible..."
Against the Frenchman who was once heading for the top of the world rankings. He reached the top 10 in 2018 and won his fifth title on the ATP Tour in Montpellier. It was to be the last for the 30-year-old, whose career went into a steep decline. He only won five matches on the tour in 2021. Pouille later told L'Équipe how difficult it was to deal with a fall from grace: "It's terrible because I'm still top ten in my head. When I see Domi (Thiem) and Stan (Wawrinka), I don't even want to imagine what they're going through. I've lost all my sponsors apart from my clothes. When you've been through so many emotions, it's difficult."
"I started to have a dark side"
Pouille continued: "I started to have a darker side and I got into a depression that made me sleep an hour a night and drink alone. I was sinking into something scary. I quit tennis for my mental health, otherwise I would have ended up in an asylum." Today, Pouille is ranked No. 229 in the world and will face England's Jan Choinski in the round of 16 of the Danube Upper Austria Open in Mauthausen
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