Generali Open Kitzbühel: Dominic Thiem vs. Pablo Andujar in the "Interwetten Match of the Day"
Dominic Thiem will play for the semi-finals of the Generali Open Kitzbühel 2019 on Thursday. Opponents in the third match after 1 p.m. will be the Spanish veteran Pablo Andujar.
by tennisnet.com
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Aug 01, 2019, 07:52 am
Dominic Thiem and Dennis Novak generally exchange a lot about each other. Sometimes even about tennis players against whom the other has to compete. The Austrian number one provided his buddy with information about his second-round opponent Pablo Cuevas ("it only worked for a sentence", Thiem jokingly said at the press conference after his success against Sebastian Ofner), the return carriage could come from Dennis Novak, who left Pablo Andujar, today's opponent of Thiems, last week in Gstaad. Although: Thiem has seen some of this match, he rarely misses Novak's professional rally.
While Dominic Thiem received the undivided attention of 5,600 spectators on the Center Court in Kitzbühel on Wednesday evening, Pablo Andujar simultaneously played his round of 16 against Philipp Kohlschreiber on the Court Kitchen Master. Also under floodlights, various interruptions in the rain had mixed up the game slightly. Andujar defeated the two-time Kitzbühel champion 6: 4 and 6: 4, so will give Dominic Thiem's quarter-final counterpart today.
Thiem twice against Andujar
The two have played against each other twice, each on clay. And in Rio de Janeiro. In 2016 Thiem won 6: 3 and 6: 4, two years later Andujar had to give up in the first set due to injury. A common thread in the recent past of the 33-year-old routine. Andujar offers very solid clay court tennis, plays quickly and without frills. Dominic Thiem convinced Sebastian Ofner with variations, he wanted to offer his fellow countryman different heights. It can be assumed that the match plan against Pablo Andujar looks similar.
In any case, the bookmakers at Interwetten have no two opinions about the outcome of this match. Dominic Thiem is the clear favorite with a odds of 1.16: 1, for a success of Pablo Andujar there is a odds of 4.65: 1.