Melzer to Australia with Bopanna

Jurgen Melzer will end his active career on the ATP tour as planned after the Australian Open. But the double legend of Austria does not rule out a brief comeback on a very special occasion.

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Jürgen Melzer and Edouard Roger-Vasselin can race again in the 2020 ATP Finals this Saturday. His opponents, Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, entered the tournament in second place, but are not yet fully convinced. After all, the two showed great comeback qualities against Kevin Krawietz and Andeas Mies, thus saving themselves in the semifinals.

There will be the last, at best, the penultimate joint appearance of Melzer with his French partner. He has ambitions to participate in the end-of-season tournament next year. Of course, it would be negligent for Roger-Vasselin not to seek another partner with whom he would also contest the first major of the year.

Once again with Petzschner to Wimbledon

Jürgen Melzer, meanwhile, has already found his playmate for the farewell tour Down Under: Rohan Bopanna will revive the Indian tradition alongside Melzer. Older sports fans will remember that the great Leander Paes has already served on the side of the great Jürgen Melzer.

As of February, however, duties as sporting director at the Austrian Tennis Association pointed out that racing on the ATP circuit was outdated. With which Melzer has no problem, as he highlighted in the English part of his press conference after the match against Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos. It would be nice if you could play at the highest level when you quit.

Jürgen Melzer still left a back door open for himself, with my best wishes to Philipp Petzschner. If his favorite German teammate, with whom the 39-year-old won Wimbledon in 2010 and the US Open in 2011, would be fit and in good shape for the Wimbledon tournament in 2021, Jürgen Melzer couldn’t think of a better place to say goodbye. After all, almost everything started there in 1999 with the victory in the youth competition.