September 20th, 2003  

back

Germany's tennis Davis Cup team is currently facing Belarus in Sundern. After losing doubles today, the Belarus team (lead by Max Mirny) is 2-1 in a lead. Hopefully the team around Rainer Schuettler turns this into victory tomorrow ...

One member of the German team - though he didn't play so far - is Lars Burgsmueller. His older brother Jens was my class mate at school, so from the age of 9 I followed Lars' career. He's one of the fairest and most modest tennis pro I ever met and deserves much more publicity than he got so far. He played some great matches, beating players such as Gustvo Kuerten, Alex Corretja, Sjeng Schalken and Younes El Aynoui, losing dramatically closed matches against Patrick Rafter, Petr Korda, Cedric Pioline - most recently he played on centre court in Wimbledon against Andre Agassi.

(to be continued)

Junior Tennis

1991 saw Lars in both singles and doubles finals at the German indoor championchips - he won the singles against Lars Rehmann 7:5, 4:6, 6:3 and lost the doubles together with Rene Abou el Alla against Lars Rehmann and Chris Tambue 6:4, 3:6, 3:6.

School tennis
Lars joins forces with his brother Jens to lead the Otto-Pankok-School team into the district finals.
from left to right: Björn Pawlik, Christian Ponten, Jens Burgsmuller, Lars Burgsmuller, Philip Hammes, Randolph Kricke

Team Tennis
Over 10 years Lars joined the team of EtuF Essen in ... In this team he played together with players like Boris Becker, Carl-Uwe Steeb and Eric Jelen. Last year he lead the team as No.1 player to win the German championship. Since 2003 he plays for Blau-Weiss Sundern and again he won the league.

EtuF Essen 1993:

Peter Moraing, Carl-Uwe Steeb, Heiner Moraing, Eric Jelen, Boris Becker, Lars Burgsmuller, Bjoern Jacob;

Ludwig, Rüdiger Haas, Jochen Settelmayer, Wilibalt Winn, Christian Bergstroem

ATP TOUR

Winner Copenhagen 2002