ATP Winston-Salem: Dominic Thiem in the night session today
The US Open champion of 2020 leads the lineup for the night session in Winston-Salem: Dominic Thiem meets JJ Wolf from the USA in the night from Monday to Tuesday from 1 a.m. CEST.
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last edit: Aug 22, 2022, 08:02 am
Anyone who has got hold of tickets for the Monday Night Session in Winston-Salem is guaranteed to see at least one thing: three masters of the one-handed backhand. Dominic Thiem opens at 7 p.m. local time against John Jeffrey Wolf from the USA, after which the two filigree artists Richard Gasquet and Lorenzo Musetti go to work. Slice duels on the backhand side are to be expected, finely interspersed with the merciless longline shot.
The tableau in Winston-Salem is a little thinner, so with Holger Rune (back) and Sebastian Baez (foot) two youngsters canceled at short notice due to injuries. The fact that Rune was still engaged in Cincinnati late on Saturday may also have played a role. And then in doubles alongside Stefanos Tsitsipas, he couldn't compete because he had to bring his long-postponed semi-final against Daniil Medvedev to a good end.
Dimitrov is waiting for Thiem
The starting position has not changed for Dominic Thiem: If he wins his opening match against Wolf, he will then face Grigor Dimitrov, which would bring the next highlight from an aesthetic point of view. The Bulgarian, the number one in Winston-Salem, is not going quite so well this year either. The semi-final in Monte-Carlo was the happiest result for Dimitrov, even though he lost that match to Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina.
The further prospects for Dominic Thiem? Jack Draper, a young Briton who doesn't go through as filigree, but impresses with speed, even when serving, could be waiting in the round of 16. Then maybe last year's winner Ilya Ivashka. But that's music for the future. First of all, the 28-year-old from Lower Austria has to make the early evening in Winston-Salem his own.