ATP Indian Wells: Dominic Thiem after solid presentation in round two
Dominic Thiem is in the third round of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells after a 6-4, 7-5 win against Jordan Thompson. There the Austrian meets Gilles Simon.
by Jens Huiber
last edit: Mar 10, 2019, 07:57 am
Thiem had to fend off a breakball in his first service game, but secured the service of Thompson for the first time in the fifth game. At 5: 3, Thiem had to parry two chances of the Australian again. After 47 minutes, however, the 25-year-old Lichtenwörther served the first set to zero.
Two Davis Cup captains had taken their places in the coaching boxes: On the part of Thompson Lleyton Hewitt, who had to testify the surprising out of his protégé Alex de Minaur against Marcos Giron earlier in the day. In the box from Thiem sat with Nicolas Massu, the Chilean captain, who has been part of the game since the tournament in Buenos Aires. Mother Karin and Galo Blanco also showed presence.
Thiem starts sentence two with break
In any case, the second round started after the taste of Thiem and his supporters: The Austrian presented with a break, a confirmation of what the statistics showed before the match: Thiem had won the first set against an Australian 15 times, and went just as often he won the court. The third game lasted more than 20 minutes, Thiem missed four chances to double break, Thompson came up to 1: 2. No special occurrence then until 3: 4 - Thiem suddenly saw three break chances, put a forehand behind the baseline in the third. Compensation.
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Thiem shook briefly, Thompson reduced his serve to 6: 5. After a breakball and after a playing time of 1:53 hours, he served himself for the third win in a third comparison with Jordan Thompson.
In the third round, Thiem had to give up against Pablo Cuevas a year ago due to an ankle injury. This time Gilles Simon is waiting, who prevailed against Malek Jaziri in three sets. Dominic Thiem leads the French with 8-2 wins in the internal balance sheet.