The beach volleyball players Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler is succeeded after a ten-month break from competition with a superior Comeback. The world Cup-the Second of 2019 won their two opening games at the national Beach Tour in Düsseldorf, Germany without dropping a set.
Thole and curlers won against Luke Pfretzschner and Steven van de Velde as well as with 2:0 (21:18, 21:12) as against Philipp Arne Bergmann and Yannick Harms (21:16, 22:20). At the conclusion of the group stage of the duel against the Zwillingsduo Bennet and David Poniewaz, who have won in the past year, the German title follows in the evening (19.15 Uhr/Sport1) yet. The semi-final games and the finals will follow on Saturday in the düsseldorf Arena-Sportpark.
Earlier, Thole with the competition-free time, so its problems. The joint Training with father and brother in his parents ‘ garden had been good and beautiful. In the head, but he was somewhere else. “I’ve always looked back on the calendar, where would we be right now. Since three weeks in China, then, actually,“ he told Sport-Informations-Dienst (sid). Instead, he spent half a year in Hamburg. “We want to again switch to the competition mode,” he announced, added, however: “I must say that I am the corona of crisis, very humble.”
The free time they have used their degree to advance. Winder, who is studying business administration, took the same three exams behind and focused otherwise on the individual Training. “My family lives, unfortunately, in Munich, the majority of my friends. But many of them have visited me in Hamburg,“ says the 25-Year-old. Before he was at the Olympic training center together with his Partner in the Sand, stood stabilization and athleticism to the program. “That was hard, because we have plowed a lot,” says the lawyer-to-Thole.