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Two-year-old Elias clearly took the first set home with 6-3 and came close to winning two straight sets at 5-4 in the second and with two balls from the match.
Then little brother Mikael, who is ranked 68th in the world compared to 201 for Elias, got up and took home the second set after the tiebreaker.
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The match was then decided on a supertie break in the first to ten. Mikael tied with 8-5 before Elias showed class and turned to victory with 10-8.
– Damn how nervous he was at 5-8. Oh yes, yes I thought I had burned the opportunity. But it goes up and down in tennis and you just have to rest. It was fun playing against Mikael, says Elias afterwards.
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He says they have always been competitive in the family.
– Mikael and I fight for everything every day. When we were little, Dad drove “home championships” and whoever won on the tennis court had to decide on food, who would sit in the car, choose a towel first, choose a place on the sofa on the television. It all revolved around who won on the tennis court and that has established this mindset with us, says Elias.
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Before the supertiebreak decision, Mikael Ymer promised to donate SEK 50,000 to the fight against the crown if he was successful with an easement. He already fulfilled that promise on the first try.
– I was so happy when I put it on. Right now my focus is not on tennis at all. I just want to be able to help. People are in hospitals and are at risk of dying. Health is the first and most important thing. When the tennis career starts, I take it, says Mikael.
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The next “Challenger Meeting” will be on Sunday, May 17, and then it will be on table tennis. The first outing is Sweden’s best player on the women’s side, Linda Bergström, against 20-year-old Stina Källberg. Then Sweden’s best male player Mattias Falck is challenged by 18-year-old talent Truls Möregårdh.
