Tennis: Tennis player Tim Pütz from Frankfurt in the final of the US Open: The happy dad

The Frankfurt tennis player Tim Pütz will play with his partner Kevin Krawietz on Saturday for the doubles title at the US Open – the Hesse native will always have his family on his side.

Kevin Krawietz hugged Tim Pütz tightly, his partner reciprocated with a courageous ruffle of his hair: After their sensational comeback and entry into the final of the US Open on Saturday, the joy burst out of the German top doubles in the sparsely attended Louis Armstrong Stadium.

“In the end, we turned our heads off and just kept playing. We rose from the dead again,” said Frankfurt’s Pütz about the hard-fought 6:3, 6:7 (9:11), 6:4 victory against the French Open winners Marcelo Arevalo/Mate Pavic (El Salvador/Croatia). “It was a fantastic match,” said Krawietz.

Full program for “KraPütz”

Instead of being upset about being eliminated shortly before the final, both must now rethink their travel plans. After the end of the big event in New York, “KraPütz” will go straight to Zhuhai in China, where Michael Kohlmann’s German Davis Cup team will be fighting for a place in the final round in Malaga starting next Wednesday.

At best, 32-year-old Franke Krawietz and Hesse Pütz, four years older, will appear there as newly crowned Grand Slam champions. Thanks to their comeback, the hoped-for title run in the US metropolis continues. It was already 2:4, 0:40 in the third set against Arevalo/Pavic – but Krawietz and Pütz remained surprisingly cool and earned a real highlight with the final in the large Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday (probably 6 p.m. CEST) against the Australian Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson.

The perfect mix in the Big Apple

For Krawietz, it is the chance to win his third Grand Slam title, which he won alongside Andreas Mies in Paris in 2019 and 2020. Pütz is hoping for his first major success. Both of them experience the days in New York very differently. “Off the court, I have to fulfill my fatherly duties,” said Pütz, who, unlike his partner, has traveled with his wife and children: “Kevin is basically alone here. I don’t even know what he’s doing all the time.”

Krawietz, who otherwise often takes his family to the tournaments, enjoys good food in one of the rooftop bars during the time when he is not playing and relaxes for the sporting challenges. So far, it seems to be the perfect mix for the duo and she could follow in the footsteps of Bayreuth’s Philipp Petzschner, who triumphed in the Big Apple in 2011 alongside Austrian Jürgen Melzer.