Hamburg: Dominic Thiem beats Pablo Cuevas
Dominic Thiem has reached the second round at the ATP 500 tournament in Hamburg. He beat Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas after 1:40 hours with 6: 3, 7: 6 (3) ( LIVETICKER for reading )
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last edit: Jul 23, 2019, 05:07 pm
The two-time French Open finalist from Lichtenwörth had some trouble in front of his parents Karin and Wolfgang, especially in the second movement. In the end Thiem avoided a third set, saved energy for the next tasks and increased head-to-head with Cuevas to 5: 2 victories.
"It was clear that I had to work hard. It was always a close match against Pablo. I am very happy that I won in two sets. It was a good performance after only one match in six weeks," said Thiem after the game .
The win against Cuevas was a total of Thiem's 250th on the ATP tour. In the second round, the 25-year-old already plays against Marton Fucsovics from Hungary on Wednesday, who had eliminated German Philipp Kohlschreiber in round one.
So far, Thiem has played twice against Fucsovics, once at the 2012 Future level in Morocco and once in qualifying for Barcelona five years ago. Both matches against the world rankings 50. the Lichtenwörther won at that time.
If Thiem wins in the fight for his second Hamburg quarter-finals en suite, then he still does not meet any law: Cristian Garin (CHI-8) lost to the Russian Andrej Rublew on Monday. Rublew now meets the Norwegian Casper Ruud, who knocked out the Dutch star Robin Haase 6: 3.3: 6.6: 1.