ATP Monte Carlo: Dominic Thiem surprisingly loses to Dusan Lajovic!
Dominic Thiem was surprisingly eliminated against Dusan Lajovic in the round of 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters tournament: 3: 6, 3: 6 in the end it was against the man from Serbia. ( The match for reading in the tennisnet live ticker! )
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Apr 18, 2019, 06:14 pm
Thiem had a classic false start and immediately played his first service game. A quick 3-0 was given away by Lajovic with a simple backhand volley, but he fended off a subsequent breakball, kept the momentum with him and ran away with a brave game to 5-0. Reminder: On Wednesday Thiem had not allowed a single breakball.
Even if the Lichtenwörther was still fighting and managed a rebreak, the world ranking was 48. Lajovic again the more offensive man at the end of set one and won him deserved 6: 3. A look at the statistics: Thiem just scored a direct point - with 14 unconstrained errors ...
Thiem gives 3: 1 lead in set two
But Thiem was now better in the game and consequently went 3-1 in the lead. But Lajovic was not stuck, managed to equalize 3: 3 and then used two bad decisions by the Austrian for another break and the 4: 3 lead.
In the competitive Lajovic service game, Thiem then came to a 0:40, but Lajovic still made it 5: 3 and managed to break again to deserve the match.
In the end, there were 21 winners on the list with the Serb, with 23 unforced errors. Thiem, on the other hand, only scored 10 direct points - with 27 Unforded Errors.
The 28-year-old Lajovic now meets the Italian qualifier Lorenzo Sonego, who won against Cameron Norrie. In the semifinals, a duel against compatriot Novak Djokovic could wait.
In the evening Thiem still plays his round of 16 with Jürgen Melzer. Opponents there: the two seeded Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo.