Congrats Norberto!

[Saarbrigga]

he just won the swiss tourny...beating avinash and bkristian on the way.

he s on the way to gain back his nr. 1 position, which he owned in TS2 and TS3 already.

good luck man!

[ILuvBillVal]

Wooo hoooo! Goooo NH! My greatest rival EVERRRRR!

[Norberto H]

Many thanks, but unfortunately it is going to take a completely different way, as it seems like I will have to retire - at least for some time. I simply can't get rid of my connection problems. Some of you know, that after I changed residence some month ago, I have those tremendous lag/interruption/disconnection issues, I lose connection at least once in more than 50 % of my ITST matches at the moment, and I understand that people are getting tired of playing me because of that (I would be pissed myself if it happened to me...). Recently someone even told me that "my connection is known to be laggy and unstable on the ITST at critical moments", which is not the case (as anybody who knows me for a longer time can confirm) , but it is laggy and unstable ALL the time .
BTW, I have 100mbit/s down and 10mbit/s upload (I think there is hardly anything faster you can get in Austria), my Internetprovider changed my modem 3 times, in the end they told me they don't know what the problem is and that they can't help me at the moment.

However, eventhough it is hard for me, as after so many years I still love participating at the ITST, I decided that my retirement is the best solution for everyone - I don't want to end up as the "guy with the **** connection nobody wants to play". If I get rid of those internet problems I will be back for sure, but for the moment.... farewell!

PS: many thanks to all my friends for the great matches you gave me, even if I am not participating at ITST you can always invite me for an exibition match (like I said, in around 50 % of my matches my connection is still perfect ). And of course many thanks to ITST, not only the greatest online-tennis site but the greatest online-gaming site IMO and my "virtual-home" . Bye!

[ILuvBillVal]

Damn it why did you have to move to ****, Austria!? Please don't retire it just won't be the same! Besides I've played plenty of guys with constantly horrible connections that have no problem playing all the time!

EDIT: How dare you censor a city in Austria?

[Puttu puttuu]

ahah who cares man... gives you more time to focus on beating dark souls! By the way how many hours have you done so far? catching up are we .

Congrats on the tournament!

[Gotenkssan]

Habs gelesen, das war mal ein absolut grandioses Turnier von dir Norberto! Nur Hammergegner hast du gespielt.
Wenn du dich hier zurückziehen würdest, dann wäre das wie wenn Federer aufhört.... als wiedererstarkte ehemalige Nummer 1.
Also ich stehe jederzeit gerne für ein Match mit dir zur Verfügung, egel ob die Verbindung in jedem zweiten Spiel abbricht oder nicht

Hau rein und steig deinen Technikern mal auf die Zehen! Kann doch nicht sein.....
Gruß Gotenkssan

[lucagiaco]

Congratulations Norberto

[seppderooij]

congratulations norberto! i did beat you almost whaha, very exciting match in 3d set tiebreak. i hope to see you soon in itst tournaments!

[Baghdad Baghdatis]

Well done matey, I always knew you were going to win a title, your game was improving each time I played you + champs like you never lose the killer instinct

I know your connections problems always annoyed you, very strange that it has started happening to you now. In time all will be better, it is your destiny!