where Franky and his little brother Jochen joined forces to try to keep you up to date on the rising career of Franky as a tennis player

News 01.Sep 2010 Franky and David reach the semis in Como! They start slow but manage to win 7-6(8),7-5 in a tough match against Yves Allegro from Switzerland and Jesse Huta Galung from The Netherlands:) On Friday they face Juan Martin Aranguren and Diego Junqueiro from Argentina... 30.Aug 2010 Franky and David pick up a strong win in the first round in Como! 6-7(7),7-6(3),10-5 against Robin Haase and Thomas Schoorel from The Netherlands:) On Wednesday they face the winner of Yves Allegro from Switzerland and Jesse Huta Galung from The Netherlands or Ashwin Kumar from USA and Adil Shamasdin from Canada... In the singles Franky did not follow through the good form from yesterday and lost easy against Walter Trusendi from Italy...most likely no chance to be lucky loser in singles... 29.Aug 2010 Franky plays a good match and wins against second seeded Alejandro Gonzalez from Colombia 7-6(7),3-6,6-3. Tomorrow he faces Walter Trusendi from Italy. The doubles draw is also out and most likely on Wednesday Franky and David face Robin Haase and Thomas Schoorel from The Netherlands... 28.Aug 2010 Franky won his first round singles 6-0,1-0 ret. against Christian Mohs from Germany. Tomorrow he faces Alejandro Gonzalez from Colombia... The doubles draw should be out tomorrow... 27.Aug 2010 Franky made it safe to Como. At the 35000+H Challenger Tournament he also plays singles...tomorrow he faces Christian Mohs from Germany... 25.Aug 2010 Franky and Mateusz go down in the second round. 2-6,4-6 against a strong Robin Haase and Thomas Schoorel from The Netherlands. Franky will stay in Italy for his next tournament which will be in Como where he teams up with David Skoch from Czech... 24.Aug 2010 Franky and Mateusz start with a good performance in the first round and overcome Yves Allegro from Switzerland and Jesse Huta Galung from The Netherlands 6-2,6-4 to reach the quarters. Tomorrow afternoon they face Robin Haase and Thomas Schoorel from The Netherlands... 22.Aug 2010 Franky made it safe to Italy. The draw is already out and this Tuesday in the first round of the 75000+H Manerbio Challenger Franky and Mateusz Kowalczyk from Poland face Yves Allegro from Switzerland and Jesse Huta Galung from The Netherlands... 15.Aug 2010 Franky is back in Baden-Baden taking the week off. His Next tournaments will be in Italy. The first one in Manerbio where he teams up with Mateusz Kowalczyk from Poland... 13.Aug 2010 Franky is back home in Baden-Baden:) 12.Aug 2010 Franky and Sam lose in the quarters 0-6,4-6:( They start slow and the opponents strong! In the second set they get a little unlucky...Franky flies back home tomorrow evening... 09.Aug 2010 Franky and Sam come up with a good first round win in Istanbul when they beat Javier Marti and Daniel Munoz de la Nava from Spain 7-6(1),6-3:) On Wednesday they face the winner of Tomasz Bednarek from Poland or David Skoch from Czech or Dustin Brown from Jamaica and Rogier Wassen from Holland... 08.Aug 2010 Franky is flying to Istanbul, Turkey tonight for his next tournament. At the 100000+H Istanbul Challenger he teams up with Samuel Groth from Australia. Already tomorrow they face Javier Marti and Daniel Munoz de la Nava from Spain... 02.Aug 2010 Franky was supposed to play in Kitzbuehel this week but he has a small injury he needs to cure...therefore he will rest for the week in Baden-Baden...it is not sure yet where Franky goes next... 01.Aug 2010 Franky wins his single today 7-6(5),6-2. The doubles were not played as the team was already down 1-5 after the singles... 31.Jul 2010 Franky supports his team with a 6-4,7-5 win in singles and 6-2,7-5 win in doubles...the team also wins 6-3:) Tomorrow they have their last match of the season away in Singen... 29.Jul 2010 Franky is back home in Baden-Baden. This weekend he will support his team TC RW Baden-Baden in their last two matches of the season... 28.Jul 2010 Franky and Lukas lose their first round match against a strong Rui Machado from Portugal and Carlos Berlocq from Argentina 6-7(4),2-6 25.Jul 2010 Franky is already in Cordenons, Italy for the 100000+H tournament. Franky teams up with Lukas Rosol from Czech again. The draw is out; they are seeded fourth and on Tuesday or Wednesday they face Rui Machado from Portugal and Carlos Berlocq from Argentina... 24.Jul 2010 Franky supports his team with a win in doubles...the team also wins fairly easy 6-3... 22.Jul 2010 Franky and Tomasz lose a not so good match 2-6,6-7(5) in the quarters in Poznan! Tomorrow he flies home and on Saturday he will support his team TC RW Baden-Baden... 20.Jul 2010 Franky and Tomasz win their first round in Poland 6-2,6-4! On Thursday they face the winner of Pavol Cervenak from Slovakia and Antonio Veic from Croatia or Rui Machado from Portugal and Daniel Munoz de la Nava from Spain... 18.Jul 2010 Franky loses a close singles match 4-6 in the third but wins the deciding point in doubles 4-6,7-5,10-3!:) The team wins again 5-4... Tomorrow Franky flies to Poznan in Poland for the 100000+H Poznan Porsche Open where he teams up with Tomasz Bednarek from Poland. They are seeded second and in the first round on Tuesday they face Marcin Gawron and Andriej Kapas from Poland... 17.Jul 2010 Franky is back in Baden-Baden after a 13 hour drive from Rimini...tomorrow he will support his team in their next match.. 16.Jul 2010 Franky and Martin lose in the semis 6-7(4),7-6(4),3-10! 15.Jul 2010 Franky and Martin reach the semis in Rimini!:) They overcome Daniele Giorgini and Alessandro Motti 6-3,6-2. Tomorrow they face Giulio di Meo from Italy and Adrian Ungur from Rumania... 14.Jul 2010 Franky and Martin win their first round match 4-6,6-1,10-5:) Tomorrow they face Daniele Giorgini and Alessandro Motti from Italy... 12.Jul 2010 Franky made it safe to Italy. At the 50000+H Rimini Challenger Franky teams up with Martin Emmrich from Germany. They are seeded third and in the first round tomorrow they face Grega Zemlja and Blaz Kavcic from Slowenia... 11.Jul 2010 Franky and Lukas win in Oberstaufen!!!:) They win 6-0,7-5 to get the title... 09.Jul 2010 Franky and Lukas reach the finals in Oberstaufen:) They beat second seeded Philipp Oswald and Michael Zverev 7-5,3-6,10-6. On Sunday in the finals they face the winner of David Skoch from Czech and Martin Slanar from Austria or Hans Podlipnik from Chile and Max Raditschnigg from Austria... 08.Jul 2010 Franky and Lukas reach the semis in Oberstaufen where they face second seeded Philipp Oswald from Austria and Michael Zverev from Germany... 05.Jul 2010 Franky is playing a challenger tournament in Oberstaufen, Germany this week. He teams up with Lukas Rosol from Czech and they have a bye in the first round! In the second round they face the winner of Mikhail Kukushkin from Kazakhstan and Denis Matsukevitch from Russia or Andreas Haider-Maurer from Austria and Bastian Knittel from Germany... 04.Jul 2010 Franky and his team bring home another very important win 5-4. Franky actually loses his singles 6-7(6),6-3,5-7 and he struggles in doubles with no energy...a strong team effort though...next match will be this Sunday at home! 03.Jul 2010 Franky and his team pick up an important win today 5-4! Franky loses his singles against a strong opponent but helps with a 6-7(6),6-4,10-6 win for the deciding point:) Tomorrow they play another game away at Heidelberg... 02.Jul 2010 Franky is already back home in Baden-Baden. This weekend on Saturday and Sunday he will support his team TC Rot Weiss Baden-Baden in their first two matches... 01.Jul 2010 Franky and Philipp lose their quarter finals in Braunschweig 7-6,3-6,5-10:( 30.Jun 2010 Franky and Philipp win their first round 6-4,6-3:) Tomorrow they play against Franco Ferreiro from Brazil and Sebastian Prieto from Argentina... 28.Jun 2010 Franky made it safe to Braunschweig. The draw is out and Franky and Philipp are seeded first. In the first round they face Sander Groen from Holland and Emilio Benfele Alvarez from Spain...first round should be tomorrow or Wednesday. 26.Jun 2010 Franky will go to Braunschweig, Germany tomorrow for his next tournament. At the 125000+H Nord LB Open he teams up with Philipp Marx from Germany... 25.Jun 2010 Franky just got back to Baden-Baden after another week in London where he tried to play in Wimbledon as a lucky loser. But with no luck so he did not get to play... 17.Jun 2010 Check out a few new pics from this spring in the Picture section... 16.Jun 2010 Franky is back home in Baden-Baden... 15.Jun 2010 Franky and Marcos lose their first round 6-4,6-2:( Franky actually did not play a bad match but things just did not want to go their way:( 14.Jun 2010 Rain in London stops the matches and now Franky is playing his first match tomorrow afternoon... 13.Jun 2010 Franky is in London. Tomorrow start the qualies of Wimbledon where he teams up with Marcos Daniel from Brazil. In the first round they face Tomasz Bednarek and Mateusz Kowalczyk from Poland... 10.Jun 2010 Franky is back home in Baden-Baden:) 09.Jun 2010 Franky and Martin lose their first round in Lugano 6-7(3),4-6:( Tomorrow he goes back home to Baden-Baden... 07.Jun 2010 Franky made it safe to Lugano. He teams up with Martin Emmrich from Germany this week and in the first round of the 100000+H Lugano Challenger they face Jeff Coetzee from South Africa and Treat Huey from Philippines... 06.Jun 2010 Franky helps the team with a 7-6(2),7-6(4) win in singles and a 6-4,4-6,12-10 win in doubles and also the team wins and finishes second in the rankings:) Tomorrow he flies to Lugano, Switzerland for his next tournament... 04.Jun 2010 Franky is back home in Baden-Baden. Tomorrow he is going back to Orleans, France to support his team in their last match of the season... 03.Jun 2010 Franky and Gabriel lose in the quarters 6-1,4-6,5-10 against Vladimir Ignatik from Bulgaria and Martin Klizan from Slovakia. They start strong but don't follow through! Franky is already on his way back home... 02.Jun 2010 Franky and Gabriel win their first round 6-3,1-6,10-1:) Tomorrow they face the winner of Daniel Brands from Germany and Lovro Zovko from Croatia or Vladimir Ignatik from Bulgaria and Martin Klizan from Slovakia... 01.Jun 2010 Franky is on his way to Fürth, Germany for his next tournament, At the 50000+H Franken Challenge he teams up with his former team mate of Karlsruhe Ruppurr Gabriel Trujillo. In the first round on Wednesday they face Farrukh Dustov from Uzbekistan and Mikhail Kukushkin from Kazakhstan... 30.May 2010 Franky played team matches in France again this week! He and his team picked up another 7-1 win at La Baule. Franky helped with a 6-4,6-7(10),6-4 win in singles and a 6-2,6-7(3),10-7 win in doubles:) 29.May 2010 Franky was hoping to pay French Open and tried to the end but his partner could not make it so there was a walk over on the end:( Maybe better for his foot as he got more time to rest... 17.May 2010 Franky is back home in Baden-Baden. He was struggling with an injury on his foot the last week and will get some treatment back home... 16.May 2010 Franky and his team Fleury Les Aubrais pick up their first win today! Franky helps the team with a 6-0,7-6(1) win in singles and a 6-2,7-6(3) win in doubles... 14.May 2010 Franky and Philipp get stopped in the semis. 6-7(5),2-6 against Nicolas Mahut Edouard Roger-Vasselin from France. Tomorrow he goes back to Orleans for the team tennis... 12.May 2010 Franky and Philipp reach the semis in Bordeaux! They win 6-4,6-4 against a strong Colin Fleming and Kenneth Skupski from Great Britain:) Tomorrow they have a day off and most likely on Friday they face the winner of Nicolas Mahut Edouard Roger-Vasselin from France or Ross Hutchins from Great Britain and Jordan Kerr from Australia... 10.May 2010 Franky is still in Bordeaux but now for the 100000+H BNP Paribas Primrose Open. He teams up with Philipp Marx from Germany and they already won their first round today 6-4,6-4 against Ramon Delgado from Paraguay and Andre Sa from Brazil:) On Wednesday they face Colin Fleming and Kenneth Skupski from Great Britain... 09.May 2010 Franky helps his team in France with a point in singles. In doubles him and his partner lose and the team also loses a close one!:( 05.May 2010 Franky is back home in Baden-Baden for a short rest. On Friday he goes back to France to support his team...they will play in Bordeaux... 04.May 2010 Franky and Evgeny lose first round in Serbia. 6-7(1),4-6 against first seeded Johan Brunstrom from Sweden and Jean-Julien Rojer from The Netherland Antilles... 02.May 2010 Franky contributes two points to his team with a 5-7,6-0,7-5 win in singles and a 6-1,7-5 win with his partner in doubles! Unfortunately the team loses close...Tomorrow morning he flies to Belgrade where in the first round they face first seeded Johan Brunstrom from Sweden and Jean-Julien Rojer from The Netherland Antilles. Luckily they don't play tomorrow so first round will be Tuesday or Wednesday... 01.May 2010 Franky is in Orleans, France for his team Fleury Les Aubrais...they have their first team match this weekend...right after Franky will go to Belgrade, Serbia where he is in the main draw of the Serbia Open on the side of Evgeny Korolev from Kazakhstan 27.Apr 2010 Franky is back home in Baden-Baden:) 25.Apr 2010 Franky made the quarters in singles and won the doubles in Midland...tomorrow he flies back home to Germany:) 22.Apr 2010 Franky made it safe to Midland, Texas... 19.Apr 2010 Franky is back in Houston! On Thursday he goes to Midland, Texas to play an exhibition tournament... 18.Apr 2010 Franky and Chris get stopped in the finals:( They play well but lose unlucky 6-1,2-6,11-13! They deserved to win but did not happen this time...still a good tournament for Franky and also for Chris who came back from a long injury time out... 17.Apr 2010 Franky and Chris are in the finals! They win a close match 4-6,6-2,11-9 against Treat Huey from The Philippines and Harsh Mankad from India! Tomorrow they face Stephen Huss and Joseph Sirianni from Australia... 15.Apr 2010 Franky and Chris reach the semis in Baton Rouge. They overcome Brian Battistone and Ryler DeHeart from USA 7-6(1),6-3. Tomorrow or Saturday they face Treat Huey from The Philippines and Harsh Mankad from India... 14.Apr 2010 Franky and Chris move on in Baton Rouge. They win 7-6(6),6-1 against Tatsuma Ito from Japan and Purav Raja from India. Tomorrow they face Brian Battistone and Ryler DeHeart from USA... 11.Apr 2010 Franky is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in USA. He will play at the Baton Rouge Challenger tournament on the side of his partner from last years Wimbledon Chris Guccione from Australia. Chris has actually been injured since last years US Open. The draw is out. They are seeded second and in the first round on Tuesday or Wednesday they face Tatsuma Ito from Japan and Purav Raja from India... 10.Apr 2010 After 7 weeks as a coach Franky is back playing some tournaments again...it might just be for a little while but for now he is playing. While coaching in Miami he actually got into the Sony Ericsson Open on the side of Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan. But not being well prepared they lose easy against number one in the world Daniel Nestor from Canada and Nenad Zimonjic from Serbia. Also this week he was in the main draw of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship in Houston where Franky followed through a streak of unlucky matches where him and Evgeny Korolev lose 6-4,3-6,9-11 against Martin Damm and Filip Polasek. They had one match point towards the end of the match:( 11.Mar 2010 There were a few changes in the last weeks! Franky retired from professional tennis. He puts his tennis career on ice and started to travel as a coach! He might still play doubles here and there but at this point it is not the main focus anymore. At the moment he is in Indian Wells, California… Stay tuned for more updates…

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