{"id":539628,"date":"2026-04-19T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539628\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:00:09","slug":"germans-schnaitter-wallner-save-championship-point-triumph-on-home-soil-in-munich-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539628\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans Schnaitter\/Wallner save championship point, triumph on home soil in Munich | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Match Report<br \/>\n    Germans Schnaitter\/Wallner save championship point, triumph on home soil in Munich<\/p>\n<p>Qualifiers capture first ATP Tour title together<\/p>\n<p>April 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/munich-2026-dubs-final.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Wallner and Jakob Schnaitter celebrate winning the title in Munich on Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BMW Open<\/p>\n<p>        Mark Wallner and Jakob Schnaitter celebrate winning the title in Munich on Sunday.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>German qualifiers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jakob-schnaitter\/sy05\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakob Schnaitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/mark-wallner\/w0e2\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Wallner<\/a> captured their first ATP Tour title as a team on Sunday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/munich\/308\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BMW Open by Bitpanda<\/a>, where they overcame Frenchmen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/theo-arribage\/a0e5\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Theo Arribage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/albano-olivetti\/o411\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albano Olivetti<\/a> 4-6, 7-6(4), 12-10 on home soil in Munich.<\/p>\n<p>Schnaitter and Wallner saved one championship point at 9\/10 in the Match Tie-break and sealed victory mishit a forehand return that landed for a winner. Following their one-hour, 44-minute victory, the pair embraced and soaked in the applause from the home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is amazing and very special for us,&#8221; Schnaitter said. &#8220;Our friends and family have been here the whole week. It was a very difficult match and the crowd carried us through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The qualifiers are the fourth all-German team to win the title in Munich, while they are the second all-German team to lift a trophy on the ATP Tour this year, joining Monte-Carlo champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/kevin-krawietz\/kb92\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Krawietz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/tim-puetz\/pc68\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Puetz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an incredible feeling,&#8221; Wallner said. &#8220;It is a bit surreal. I can&#8217;t really believe it. I hope it is going to hit me later today and then we will enjoy it. I don&#8217;t know how we saved the match point, it was such a blur. At the end, Jakob made that lucky shot over them and we won and I got goosebumps all over the body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arribage and Olivetti were seeking their fourth title of a standout season, having triumphed in Dallas, Auckland and Montpellier. The Frenchmen are seventh in the PIF ATP Doubles Teams Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Did You Know?<br \/>It was third time lucky for Schnaitter, 30, and Wallner, 26, on Sunday in Munich. The Germans lost finals in Bucharest and Almaty in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/atp-number-one-club\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768199891_139_atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cATP\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Germans Schnaitter\/Wallner save championship point, triumph on home soil in Munich Qualifiers capture first ATP Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}