My first posting from the Manforter Stadion at the #TrueAthletes Classics 2023 in Leverkusen has been about the field events. Now, I take you on the track and show you what has been going on at the athletics meeting on 29th…
Saturn Oil Open 2023: R. Ramanathan (IND) / N. Zimonjic (SRB) – D. Brown (JAM) / T. Sandkaulen (GER) 4-6 7-6(4) x-1(9-11))
A 75k ATP Challenger right next to the city where I grew up? Troisdorf near Bonn and their tennis club TC Rot-Weiss Troisdorf, hosted a professional tournament for the second time at all in the last week of May 2023.…
ISTAF Indoor Duesseldorf (29th January 2023)
The ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf was truly an sports event I was looking forward to very much. First of all, I was glad to be back in athletics (after almost a decade – the last coverage has been with my…
Nevena – Nevena
Scanning the releases as of 9th December 2022, I early ran into the album Nevena by the equivalently named Serbian artist. It is her debut album and full of English language song, after she song in your mother tongue previously. …
bett1HULKS Championship 2020: Sumit Nagal (IND) – Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) 6-3 (4)6-7 1-6
Second week in the Cologne LANXESSarena, second tournament: more or less in parallel to the first week tournament victory by German Alexander Zverev at the bett1HULKS Indoors (the first week tournament), Indian Sumit Nagal lost his deciding qualification match for…
The Big Three of Tennis Men Singles – Unique Dominance?
After Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2020, charts like the one by below by the German Data Journalist Felix Richter were likely almost covered by any major sports magazine in the world (at least the ones who touch tennis…
Kragujevac 21st October Museum
On 21st October 1941, the German Wehrmacht slaughtered thousands of civilians in Kragujevac, Serbia, to revenge dead and wounded soldiers. The exact numer of victims is uncertain – Germany named 2,300, while 2,700 are definitely named and confirmed. There are,…
Studenica Monastry & Zica Monastry
While I have to admit that I did not like Davis Cup tie host city Kraljevo too much, there are some interesting sights in the surroundings. Two must-visit tourist destinations are the monastries Zica and Studenica. The latter is even…