About bows full of respect, a ban and fascinating impressions in Seoul and at the North Korean border Everything starts as planned.. Well, not everything — My journey begins with 2,5 hours of boredom, waiting on board the plane in Munich. However, just as I begin to feel the grey [...]
About nordic experiences, acts of power and hidden reindeers „Päädyin“ – In the Finnish language it means „I landed“. In other context a secure landing will play an important role within the next two weeks. Starting from the airport Helsinki it is around an hour drive to Lahti – heading [...]
About missing roofs, security à la France and the birth of a super star Paris 2016. My 13th French Open are ahead of me. The expectations of fans as well as journalists in Austria have risen. That is no surprise because Dominic Thiem has gotten stronger again since last year. [...]
About gigantic plans for the US Open, a Caribbean parade in Brooklyn and a happy landing with Roger F. Big, bigger, Big Apple or in this case – the US Open. This year I am back at the biggest annual sport event concerning audience on this planet. The numbers of [...]
Austria has a young tennis-star again, who really creates big hopes for a great future. Dominic Thiem came with two tournament wins in a row (Umag and Gstaad) to the Generali Open to Kitzbühel and with only 21 years of age he was seeded as number one for the first [...]
The eagle has landed When the e-mail came in to announce the press conference about the future of Thomas Morgenstern everybody knew somehow already: the great career of this sympathetic guy from Austria ends – he is not even 28 years old. But no one was really astonished about it. [...]
About a French war hero, my new favourite museum and where the Parisians love to picnic One year without a tennis grand slam tournament on site really was enough. It is my 25th major as a sports journalist and it leads me to the biggest clay court event on this [...]
About gondola rides, interviews far after midnight or the Kasai-mania Salt Lake City, Turin, Vancouver – and now Russia. The expectations for my fourth Olympic Winter Games have not been too high. Already months ahead of the Games there were a lot of negative issues in connection with this sport-event. [...]
