[Monday, June 6, 2022 12:19 p.m.]

Great tennis before the big rain picture 1

The Slovakian Lukas Klein wins the first Saturn Oil Open against Zizou Bergs from Belgium

Great tennis before the big rain. The individual final of the first Saturn Oil Open was moved forward one hour to 1 p.m. due to the critical weather forecast. And that was exactly the right decision, because immediately after the atmospheric award ceremony the heavy rain began. Previously, qualifier Lukas Klein (SVK) set out to win his first ATP title with an incredibly strong performance against the favored Belgian tennis hope Zizou Bergs.

Lukas was able to use his enormous quality from the previous rounds against Pawel Cias, Hahn Habib, Facundo Mena, Nicola Kuhn, Hugo Greiner and Henri Squire in the final and confidently won the title, prize money, ATP points and with 6:2 and 6:4 the B&B Hotels Tennis Trophy. “Lukas’ powerful, almost error-free game impressed us all,” summed up organizer Marc Raffel afterwards.

SOO2022 Lukas Klein Individual winner Lukas Klein (Slovenia)

SOO2022 Zizou Mountains Runner-up Zizou Bergs (Belgium)

Double triumph for Brown/King

The day before, Dustin Brown (GER) and Evan King (USA) won the doubles title with a 6:4 and 7:5 win against Hendrik Jebens (GER) and Piotr Matuszewski (POL). The No. 2 seeded Jamaican/American combination deservedly earned the title and thrilled the crowd.

First-class conclusion from those responsible

Uwe Mass, President of the organizing TC RW-Troisdorf eV, organizer Marc Raffel and co-tournament director Marc Kevin Goellner draw an extremely positive balance. Over the entire tournament week there were over 4,000 visitors, and interest from spectators, press and sponsors was extremely high. “I was also impressed by the level of performance of the professionals,” said Goellner. “Now it’s time to take stock and start planning for the coming year,” says Raffel.

TO THE SATURN OIL OPEN 2022

And the SATURN OIL OPEN-Travelscout is...

Uli is our SATURN OIL OPEN travel scout who will be able to experience a dream tennis vacation at the Forte Village Resort in the south of Sardinia at the end of September, including tennis training at the European Tennis Academy . And Uli will definitely take his brand new YONEX Travelbag with him - the ideal travel luggage for a dream vacation! Congratulations!