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# Brandt closes it in the fifth set
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- Published: 2026-11-07T21:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-07T21:50:00.000Z
- Description: TTC Nordtal | 9–7 | SV Mühlbach
- Author: Ines Hartmann
- Tags: TTC Nordtal, #report, #drop-cap, #Import 2026-11-11 10:08

First team 9–7 over SV Mühlbach, and Brandt closed it in the fifth set of the final doubles, 12–10, on his own serve.

It should never have come to that. At 8–6 Wendt only had to beat Sauter, and Sauter beat him 3–0 in about eleven minutes. So Brandt and Yilmaz went back to the table against Hof and Kern, the pair they had beaten in four at the start of the evening, and lost the first set.

They were 1–2 down in sets after three. Yilmaz, who had lost both of his singles again, then played the best fourth set anyone has seen from him this season, and in the fifth Mühlbach had a match point at 10–9\. His backhand down the line saved it. Brandt served twice, and the thirty or so people in the hall, most of them second-team players who had stayed after their own match, made a noise the caretaker will mention at the AGM.

Before all that, Brandt had also beaten Hof in singles from 0–2 down. Riedel and Albers won both their singles, Novak lost both. Third in the table, three match points behind Kirchdorf, with Hohenfeld away next.

## Rubbers

| #  | Nordtal       | Mühlbach     | Sets                      | Result |
| -- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------------------- | ------ |
| 1  | Brandt/Yilmaz | Hof/Kern     | 11–6 11–4 8–11 11–8       | 3–1    |
| 2  | Novak/Riedel  | Lenz/Abt     | 3–11 11–8 6–11 11–7 7–11  | 2–3    |
| 3  | Albers/Wendt  | Brück/Sauter | 11–8 11–5 14–12           | 3–0    |
| 4  | Brandt        | Kern         | 11–7 11–5 4–11 14–12      | 3–1    |
| 5  | Yilmaz        | Hof          | 11–13 10–12 11–4 4–11     | 1–3    |
| 6  | Novak         | Abt          | 7–11 11–5 9–11 12–14      | 1–3    |
| 7  | Riedel        | Lenz         | 11–7 11–6 11–8            | 3–0    |
| 8  | Albers        | Sauter       | 11–8 11–8 11–4            | 3–0    |
| 9  | Wendt         | Brück        | 5–11 12–14 6–11           | 0–3    |
| 10 | Brandt        | Hof          | 4–11 5–11 11–6 11–9 11–6  | 3–2    |
| 11 | Yilmaz        | Kern         | 11–4 4–11 7–11 6–11       | 1–3    |
| 12 | Novak         | Lenz         | 4–11 8–11 11–4 6–11       | 1–3    |
| 13 | Riedel        | Abt          | 11–6 5–11 11–5 11–5       | 3–1    |
| 14 | Albers        | Brück        | 11–9 11–6 11–13 11–9      | 3–1    |
| 15 | Wendt         | Sauter       | 11–13 9–11 7–11           | 0–3    |
| 16 | Brandt/Yilmaz | Hof/Kern     | 9–11 11–4 7–11 11–7 12–10 | 3–2    |