Barbara Haas to Linz-Aus: "At some point it will be worth it"
As in the past four years, Barbara Haas has lost her opening match at the WTA tournament in Linz . The path of the 23-year-old is hard, but she looks positively towards the future after strong weeks.
by Lukas Zahrer from Linz
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Oct 09, 2019, 08:23 pm
"I served poorly strategically, which broke my neck," was the analysis by Barbara Haas after her 3-6, 3-6 against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. “I went to aces too much, should have served more cut and percentage. That was tactically bad. "
Both in the first and in the second set the third game was a sticking point, after more than ten minutes the Russian got the game. “I was a little too far behind the baseline, I wanted to be patient. But that was just too little, ”said Haas, whose disappointment after the loss to number 40 in the world was manageable. "You shouldn't forget who was on the other side. It was more competitive than the result suggests. ”
Barbara Haas: Step to the WTA level
Although Austria has been waiting for a top 100 player since summer 2013, Haas was pleased about the support in the Linz TipsArena. “I got a lot of attention for my ranking. Many children look up to me. That gives a boost. "
In the future, Haas plans to serve more tournaments in WTA tournaments. Your current ranking of 147 does not bring you into the main fields, but it should be enough for qualifications. According to her own statement, she lacks matches against players who are at a slightly higher level than themselves.
Nevertheless, the Upper Austrian wants to stay active on the level below the WTA tournaments. With a tournament victory at the clay court tournament in Hechingen , she celebrated the greatest success. “The WTA tour is torn, the ITF tournaments are closer together. It will be a mix, ”she said. "Everywhere I go I want to play WTA qualifiers."
In Austria, Haas currently finds it difficult to find training partners at a high level. However, while she is fine-tuning details at home, she continuously trains with direct opponents at the tournaments anyway. A training camp with players from other nations is “simply not possible in women's tennis”.
Barbara Haas: "Everything else makes no sense"
Haas will continue in Luxembourg next week. “The double mistakes ran through my entire season. I definitely have to improve that, ”she said. After another ITF tournament in Hungary, she ends the season with a short vacation.
After a build-up of conditions, Haas will travel to Dubai in early December, from there it will go directly to Australia. So she can't spend Christmas with her family. “You have to put up with that. It hurts, but everything else doesn't make sense, ”she said of the expensive preparation. "This is the story of my life . At some point it will be worth it, ”Haas is certain.