Just before the start of the 9th FIR World Champs Teams and NOVOMATIC Austrian Open from 3rd to 5th September in Austria, the biggest national internet sports platform has filmed a Racketlon video on www.laola1.at All national team matches on Centre Courts 1 will be live scored on www.resultreporter.com Unfortunately Pakistan players did not git visa to travel to Austria, thus 18 teams will compete for the elite title, 8 for seniors (+45) and 5 for juniors (u21). Late entries for the Austrian Open (over 300 entries) waiting list, please e-mail krenn@racketlon.at and all further tournament information is on www.racketlon.at/wct2010

Alex Köpf and Jutta Schaub take the home titles in their city of Linden at ALTERNATE Open Challenger (27.-29. August) and prove that Germany is a hot candidate for one of the World Champs titles next weekend in Austria. A surprise were the finalists. On the one side Canadian Fredric Damours, who made it to the Elite final and will lead his home country to the Worlds and on the other side Swiss girl Natalie Zoeli. Köpf can be proud over a triple victory, also winning the Men Doubles with Elmar Schaub, as well as the Mixed with Jutta Schaub. Juniors and Seniors als went to Germany, with Henning Kleb and Volker Sach. Most scores are already on www.resultreporter.com Due to network prolems the rest is still to be recovered.

Never before have wildcard players won an Elite draw of a FIR World Tour Event. That was until last weekend at English Open (20.-22.) it was four English in a row. Edward Batson defeated both Rickard Persson and Jermaine Manners to win the Men Elite, while Isabelle Tyrrell outclassed topseed Natalie Lawrence in round one to win the final in Women Elite against Sarah-Jane Perry. Finally newcomers Stahl/McKee won the Men Doubles. Only Seniors (45+) went to one of the top favourites with David Lazarus. Most of the draws are now completed onwww.resultreporter.com. The rest will follow.

Racketlon is on the march all over the continents again. Last Sunday 1st August the already 4th Cape Open was held in South Africa with South African chairman Patric Kalous reporting. This weekend the 2nd La Trobe University Racketlon in Melbourne, Australia will take place on Saturday 7th August organised by Leigh Sands, with former English international Calum Munro topseeded. "Both destinations are very important for FIR and I hope the success will inspire South Africa and Australia to become next FIR members", says FIR-President Marcel Weigl.

Joey Schubert wins his third World Tour title of the year with his first victory ever over fellow Michi Dickert in the final of German Open (30.7 - 1.8) in Nussloch. The two also win their second Doubles Title together. Germans hit back in Womens Single where Andrea Scharnagl wins her fist title on the FIR World Tour. Yet another title for Peter Sakovics in +45, Graham King in +55 and Henning Kleb in u21. All Results can be found on www.resultreporter.com, as can the new FIR World Rankings (valid for World Champs Teams) and the World Tour Race of August.

Edward Batson is the winner of the 2nd Welsh Open in Cardif (24.7). In the final the newcomer beats the combacker of the year, well known on the World Tour Nick Macey. In the battle woman agains man, Natalie Lawrence beats her own nationalteam captain Stuart Foster in the match for 3rd place in Men B. Most results are already online, others will (hopefully) follow on Resultreporter. More information on www.englishracketlon.org

The old man is back on the Racketlon road again. Rickard Persson, who is on the FIR World Tour since 2001 is the winner of Dutch Open with a victory over Alex Köpf in the final. With his third World Tour title the Swede is now the oldest World Tour winner at the age of 41 years. In addition he also took the Men Doubles title with Paul Twisterling. On the womens side Marielle van der Woerdt defended title in an all home court final with Karin Geertsma. Van der Woerdt also took the Mixed title with Alwin Krist, while Geertsma won Women Doubles with Julia Knake. All results on www.resultreporter.com

For the first time Racketlon was part of the biggest youth sports event in Europe with 4000 youngsters from 26 nations near Vienna/Austria. The Racketlon winners are Christine Seehofer (girls u18), Max Stiefelmayer (boys u14) and Alexander Oliver (boys u16). The english talent came over from London not only to win the World Sports Festival in his age class, but also to win the local tournament 2. HEAD Series in the amateur class. "We are very happy that Racketlon is now part of this festival and hope to establish this in the next years", says organiser and FIR President Marcel Weigl.

FIR has now released the official elite draws for Dutch Open next weekend (10.-11. July). Te defending champions Alex Köpf and Marielle van der Woerdt are the favourites for victory in this years 8-player draws. All other draws and the time schedule will be online on the tournament homepage http://www.racketlon.nl/com/ shortly. The elite draws are on www.resultreporter.com