Hamburg Open: Dominic Thiem strong after starting difficulties!
Dominic Thiem has reached the quarter-finals of Hamburg after a hesitant start and many missed chances. He won 7-5, 6-1 against Hungary's Marton Fucsovics.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Jul 24, 2019, 06:24 pm
In the end, it was nine break chances that Dominic Thiem needed until he made the first round against the world ranking 50. had finally decided for himself.
From the beginning, Thiem was the player who dictated the game against Fucsovics - but was too impatient in the decisive phases. Maybe also missing match practice: Thiem had only played two matches after the French Open final six weeks ago ...
At the end of set one, Thiem pulled on and played well, and then came the first serve, which was only around 40 percent for a long time. Fucsovics, you had the feeling, had given up at the beginning of the second sentence. With a score of 5: 7, 0: 1 and 0:40, he managed to get an ace with a serve from below - for which he apologized. Then it quickly came to an end.
In the end it was 20 winners for Thiem, with 20 mistakes without need. His opponent's score was 12:25.
Strong: Thiem made 93 percent of the point when the first serve came. Which was ultimately 51 percent the case.
"I was glad that I didn't have to go into the tiebreaker. The foreballs were out of bounds with the breakballs ..." Thiem also knew where the problem was. "After that I was very happy with my performance."
Here is the match to read in the live ticker!
In the quarter-finals on Friday, Thiem now faces Andrey Rublev, who won 3: 6, 7: 5 and 6: 3 against Christian Ruud at noon.
In doubles, Oliver Marach and Jürgen Melzer also reached the second round: they beat Marco Cecchinato and Benoit Paire 6-2, 6-1. You will now meet Rohan Bopanna / Pablo Carreno Busta.