Nico Langmann
Nico Langmann 
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| Nico Langmann 2014 | |
| Nation: |
 Austria
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| Birthday: | March 17, 1997 |
| Playing hand: | right |
| Trainer: | Wolfgang Thiem |
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| Career record: | 275: 165 |
| Career title: | 16 |
| Highest ranking: | 18 (April 29, 2019) |
| Current placement: | 34 |
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| Career record: | 158: 115 |
| Career title: | 13 |
| Highest ranking: | 21 (May 20, 2019) |
| Current placement: | 39 |
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Last update of the infobox: August 12, 2020 |
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| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |
Nico Langmann (born March 17, 1997 in Vienna ) is an Austrian wheelchair tennis player and Paralympic participant. He won six tournaments on the international wheelchair tennis tour, two junior world championships in doubles and three national championships.
Life
Langmann was involved in a car accident in 1999 that left him with paraplegia . Due to the interests of his family, he came to tennis early; he started exercising regularly at the age of nine. Since then he has been playing for RTC Fontana. In 2015 he passed the Matura at the Gymnasium Wenzgasse and has since concentrated on his sport.
Career
Langmann started his career on the international tour in 2009. He lost in the first round of the amateur competition in Groß-Siegharts . 2012 can be seen as the first successful season on the tour; so he was able to celebrate some successes over far better classified players, even over some Paralympians . In 2013, at the end of the year, he found himself in 93rd place in the ranking among the top 100 in the world. The collaboration with Werner Eschauer began in autumn 2013 . After four finals at international tournaments in 2014, he was able to improve his year-end ranking to 52nd place and for the first time win the double world championship title for juniors, which in 2014 earned him the award of ÖBSV Young Sportsman of the Year.
After a serious skiing accident in February 2015, in which he suffered a fracture of the base of the skull , among other things , he had to forego participating in tournaments for almost half a year, which resulted in his ranking dropping to 80th place in July 2015. He celebrated a successful comeback by winning his first international titles (in Utrecht , Westende , Bucharest and Jerusalem ), which brought him to 34th place in the world rankings. In November 2015 he was also able to defeat Austria's number one, Martin Legner , in the finals of the national team championships and thus win the national championship title together with Josef Riegler for Lower Austria .
In 2016, after initially rather mixed results, he was able to win 2 more titles on the international tour, which also overtook Martin Legner in the world rankings and replaced him as Austria's number 1 after 25 years. On May 23, 2016, the qualification date for the Paralympic Games in Rio, he finished 28th in the world rankings and thus fulfilled the limit, making him the youngest Austrian in the Paralympic team for Rio.
Langmann has been trained by Wolfgang Thiem since summer 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.noen.at/nachrichten/lokales/sport/moedling/Langmann-rollt-zu-Gold;art2660,606874
- ↑ http://parasport.at/aktuelles/artikel/nico-langmann-nachwuchssportler-2014/
- ↑ http://at.tennisnet.com/a/itf-rollstuhltennis-tour-nico-langmann-im-exklusivinterview-es-war-wider-alle-erwartungen-30456
- ↑ ITF wheelchair tennis: Nico Langmann - "I know that I want a lot more of it". In: at.tennisnet.com. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .
- ↑ https://kurier.at/sport/tennis/rollstuhltennis-ass-langmann-das-ist-weltweit-einzigartig/400974545
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| SURNAME | Langmann, Nico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian wheelchair tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1997 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |