Singles and doubles victory

Maxi Taucher cleaned up at the French Open

Maximilian Taucher played some fantastic tennis at the French Open.(Bild: GEPA)

The Vorarlberg wheelchair tennis player won both the singles and doubles at the French Open after a great performance. The 16-year-old has thus fulfilled a lifelong dream.

For the 16-year-old from Hohenems, the French Open in Paris turned into a triumphant procession, with him playing in a league of his own at times. However, the final in the junior singles competition was a fight on a knife-edge. With the better end for Taucher: in a match worth seeing, he won by a wafer-thin margin in three sets against the number two seed from the Netherlands, Ivar Van Rijt, with the last set only being decided in a match tie-break (2:6, 6:4 and 10:8).

 The young wheelchair player followed up the first Grand Slam title of his career with a second shortly afterwards: Together with his British partner Ruben Harris, he defeated the duo Yassin Hill/Van Rijt in the final of the doubles competition. In view of the previous exertions, this feat of energy cannot be overestimated. A lifelong dream has come true for Maxi: "Clay is my absolute favorite surface and the French Open is simply a cool tournament!"