Praise from Bresnik for Thiem: "He has become more stable"
Dominic Thiem's training camp on Tenerife is coming to an end after around two and a half weeks. Coach Günter Bresnik has a lot of praise for the French Open finalist.
by Ulrike Weinrich
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Dec 21, 2018, 10:07 am
Dominic Thiem had saved his ultimate magic stroke in 2018 for the end of the year. In one of the last practice sessions on Tenerife, the world ranking night hit overhead balls. Over and over again. But always only smashes? At some point, the talented hobby footballer became kicker.
As a result, he neatly stopped the next high ball with the pick, balanced it twice briefly, and then finished with a forehand winner. 1: 0 for the "Dominator" !!!
The fun wasn't neglected on the home stretch of the training camp on the Canary Island, which Bresnik recorded as a success. "From my point of view, it went very well. Dominic played excellently after a week," said the APA coach and said: "Time will always be too short for you as a coach. But basically the majority of what we set out to do was implemented. ”
According to Bresnik, Thiem trained backhand cross strokes with the Latvian Ernests Gulbis, with the Portuguese Jaoa Sousa forehand cross shots. The focus was also on service and return.
And Bresnik was very satisfied with his protégé Thiem: "It may not be recognizable to normal consumers, but for me it has clearly become more stable."
Thiem is on the plane at Christmas
In addition to Gulbis and Sousa, the German Davis Cup player Jan-Lennard Struff, the two Austrians Dennis Novak and Sebastian Ofner and Thiem brother Moritz were also on Tenerife. Bresnik spoke of a "very pleasant and productive atmosphere".
For Thiem, who spent his vacation with girlfriend Kristina Mladenovic in the Maldives, is no longer going home after the end of the bone mill preparation. The 25-year-old will fly to Abu Dhabi on December 24.
The "dominator" in Abu Dhabi against Khachanov
Thiem, who competes in the ATP tournament in Doha (from December 31) before the Australian Open (from January 14), will meet Karen Khachanov (December 22 to December 29) on the first day of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship ). The Russian defeated Lichtenwörther 6: 4, 6: 1 in the semi-finals on his way to the Masters success in Paris-Bercy. It was the first duel between the two.
The winner of this game will have to deal with industry leader Novak Djokovic (Serbia) in the "semi-finals" of the exhibition in the Emirate, who has a walk-through at the start. Just like Rafael Nadal, by the way. The winner of the duel between defending champion Kevin Anderson from South Africa and South Korean Hyeon Chung is waiting for the Spanish Roland Garros record champion on December 28 in the Zayed Sports City Center.