Ultimate Tennis Showdown: Dominic Thiem against David Goffin and Matteo Berrettini at the weekend
Dominic Thiem will meet Patrick Mouratoglou's academy at the weekend with two opponents with whom he has often had problems on the regular tour: David Goffin and Matteo Berrettini .
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Jun 26, 2020, 03:09 pm
The Generali Austrian Pro Series have been successfully ticked off, Dominic Thiem is headed back to the south of France to top up his points account at the Ultimate Tennis Showdown in Patrick Mouratoglou's academy. Thiem has to roll up the field from behind, the first weekend had taken place without the current world rankings third due to his appearance on the Adriatic tour in Belgrade.
The premiere last Friday against Richard Gasquet still went wrong, but a day later Thiem was the first player to succeed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the new compact format (four quarters of ten minutes each, each point counts, whoever won more quarters wins the match; in the event of a tie, a Sudden Death decides to hit two).
Balanced balance of Thiem against Berrettini
Tomorrow Saturday, Thiem was booked again for the night shift and will face David Goffin at 10:15 p.m. Not exactly the favorite opponent of the Austrian number one: There have been ten games between Thiem and Goffin so far, the Belgian is ahead with 7: 3 wins. The last meeting was a while ago, at the ATP Finals in London in 2017. Goffin won smoothly in two sets.
David Goffin got his first two wins last weekend after two defeats at the start (against Gasquet and Matteo Berrettini) against Alexei Popyrin and veteran Feliciano Lopez).
The second opponent for Thiem will be Berrettini on Sunday. Against the Italian Thiem lost the insignificant group game at the ATP Finals 2019 in London, more important was the home success in the semi-finals of Vienna a few weeks before. Overall, it is 2-2 between Thiem and Berrettini. The 2019 US Open semi-finalist will also be part of "Thiem's 7" in Kitzbühel from July 7th to 11th.