Erste Bank Open: Dominic Thiem defeats Diego Schwartzman and wins first title in Vienna
Dominic Thiem won the Erste Bank Open in Vienna for the first time in his career. The Austrian beat Diego Schwartzman 3-6 , 6-4 and 6-3 in the final. ( The match can be found in our live ticker ).
by Nikolaus Fink
last edit: Oct 27, 2019, 08:57 pm
by Nikolaus Fink from the Wiener Stadthalle
Final day at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna - Dominic Thiem got involved in his first final in the Austrian capital with Diego Schwartzman. In front of the finals of the ATP 500 tournament, the Austrian was 4: 2 ahead in the head to head, the last duel Thiem had clearly decided in April of this year in Barcelona.
In the hall, the two had never met before, so the first games of the Vienna finals were used for scanning. Both players gave their service at the beginning, before Thiem brought his serve for the first time to 2: 1. Only two games later, however, Schwartzman managed another break to 3: 2.
It developed an open exchange, in which the Argentinian from the baseline easily had the upper hand. Thiem, however, quarreled with his error-prone game and lost in the course of the first sentence increasingly control of the game - with another break Schwartzman passage number one after a competitive start pocketed relatively easily with 6: 3.
Thiem leaves in sentence two initially chances
At the beginning of the second set Thiem was due to much too passive game a break chance, but overall the 26-year-old seemed to find a better match despite the missed opportunity. But also Schwartzman did not let up and fended off the stand of 1: 1 another break chance.
A few minutes later, the world ranking-15 awarded. from Buenos Aires at the score of 3: 2 even a break ball - rather Thiem defended this with an Ace. The game was still on the knife edge, no actor could work out a playful advantage in the second set. On the scoreboard, however, this has already succeeded - and the local hero! Thiem took the serve from Schwartzman to 5: 4 and served for set compensation.
Thiem interrupts
The World Ranking Five completed this task confidently and made up for the 3: 6 and 6: 4 with great cheers from the 9600 spectators. A third set had to bring the decision - against Fernando Verdasco and Matteo Berrettini this had already worked very well for Thiem.
And also against Schwartzman Thiem start excellently in the third section. The Austrian took the Gaucho immediately from the first service game, especially the forehand along the line ran in this phase of the encounter excellent. But Schwartzman did not give up, after five lost games in a row, the 27-year-old secured the game win to 1: 2 in his view.
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Thiem acted at their own impact but now almost untouchable and also played much more aggressively from the baseline than in the previous two sets. So the Lightweaver came around relatively safe for 5: 3 and was only a step away from his big dream.
Thiem brings Austria-Double!
Although Schwartzman went 30-0 in the lead, Thiem developed in the ninth game but still a match ball - and used this with a forehand winner also equal to 3: 6, 6: 4 and 6: 3 success! After 2:25 hours playing time, the Austrian was known as the winner of Vienna and then had his party duly celebrated!
Thiem did not only win the fifth title of the current season and thus became the sole front runner, but was also the first Austrian ever to win the tournaments in Kitzbühel and in Vienna - and in the same season!
"It was a great game, I can not believe it, it's all the better that it happened to a friend, today a childhood dream came true," said Dominic Thiem in a first reaction after the match.