Alexander Antonitsch

Alex Antonitsch
Nation:	Austria
Birthday:	February 8, 1966
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	85 kg
1st professional season:	1988
Resignation:	1996
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 1,024,171
singles
Career record:	106: 143
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	40 (July 9 1990)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	113: 126
Career title:	4th
Highest ranking:	54 (October 16 1989)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Alexander "Alex" Antonitsch (born February 8, 1966 in Villach ) is a former Austrian tennis player .

Life

At the age of 16 Antonitsch decided to pursue a professional career in tennis. In addition to Thomas Muster , Horst Skoff and Gilbert Schaller , who were around the same age , he was one of four successful Austrian participants in the ATP tour in the late 1980s and early 1990s . Here he achieved a tournament win in singles ( Seoul 1990) and five wins in doubles ( Cologne 1986, Basel 1987, Vienna 1988, Seoul 1991, Newport 1994). In 1990 he was the first Austrian to reach the round of 16 at Wimbledon . For the Austrian Davis Cup team he competed 27 times between 1983 and 1996, the team's greatest success reaching the semi-finals in 1990, where they were eliminated in Vienna against the later Davis Cup winners USA. He was also a singles and doubles participant in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul .

From the beginning of the 1990s, Antonitsch had to take several breaks due to injuries, and finally ended his active career in October 1996.

Since then, Antonitsch has been committed to promoting young talent, among other things he founded the school sports campaign “Tennis4Kids” in Vienna. In Annenheim (municipality of Treffen am Ossiacher See ) he runs the “Antonitsch tennis center”. He also worked as a co-commentator on Austrian television (ORF) until 2013 and occasionally competes in exhibition fights. In 2008 he published the book "The Winner's Mental Training and How You Can Use It Successfully in Your Life" together with Markus Eggetsberger. In May 2010 Antonitsch launched the website www.tennisnet.com together with the German ex-world-class player Carl-Uwe Steeb .

Antonitsch has been the tournament director of the Generali Open in Kitzbühel since 2011.

Antonitsch has been working for Eurosport as a commentator at the Grand Slam tournaments since the US Open 2013 .

Antonitsch has been a commentator at Servus TV since the Australian Open 2019.

Alexander Antonitsch is married to the former professional tennis player Karin Oberleitner (* 1968) and has two children. He lives with his family in Gaaden near Vienna . While her daughter Mira (* 1998) followed in her parents' footsteps and is also one of the most successful tennis players in her age group, son Sam (* 1996) plays ice hockey and has been under contract with the EC VSV since 2017 .

Alexander Antonitsch was a founding member of the Vienna Tigers ice hockey club in 2005 and sits on the board. He is also the founder and responsible for Public & Government Relations at the Okanagan Hockey Academy in St. Pölten , the European headquarters of the Canadian Okanagan School.

successes

singles

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	April 22, 1990	Seoul	Hard court	Pat Cash	7: 6 2 , 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	April 29, 1990	Hong Kong	Hard court	Pat Cash	3: 6, 4: 6
2.	July 12, 1992	Newport	race	Bryan Shelton	4: 6, 4: 6

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	3rd November 1985	Cologne	Hard court (i)	Michiel Schapers	Jan Gunnarsson Peter Lundgren	6: 4, 6: 7, 6: 3
2.	October 23, 1988	Vienna	Carpet (i)	Balázs Taróczy	Kevin Curren Tomáš Šmíd	4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6
3.	April 21, 1991	Seoul	Hard court	Gilad Bloom	Kent Kinnear Sven Salumaa	7: 6, 6: 1
4th	July 14, 1994	Newport	race	Greg Rusedski	Kent Kinnear David Wheaton	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	January 17, 1993	Auckland	Hard court	Alexander Volkov	Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith	3: 6, 6: 7
2.	October 23, 1994	Vienna	Carpet (i)	Greg Rusedski	Mike Bauer David Rikl	6: 7, 4: 6

Web links

• ATP profile of Alexander Antonitsch (English)
• ITF profile of Alexander Antonitsch (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Alexander Antonitsch (English)
• Alexander Antonitsch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Jörn Krieger: New web portal for tennis fans. In: TV Digital . May 18, 2010, accessed March 26, 2016 . 
2. ↑ tennisnet.com: Antonitsch will strengthen the Eurosport team in the future Article from October 15, 2013
3. ↑ "Play for myself, not for dad": Mira Antonitsch in a tennisnet.com interview , accessed on November 28, 2014