At the recent European Open, Dominic Thiem has shown impressive performance when winning tickets to the semi -finals. However, the Austrian player loses unfortunate against Sebastian Korda, thereby missing the final match.
Leaving Belgium, Thiem is currently present at home to attend Vienna Open. This is the ATP 500 prize on the hard yard. Last night, Thiem had just had a match in the first round of men, with the opponent Tommy Paul.
Entering set 1, Thiem was not good. The Austrian player lost 1 circuit 4 consecutive games and was led to 0-4. Due to the great gap, he could not turn the flag, thereby accepting to lose the gap 2-6 in this set.
Set 2, Thiem has rising strongly. This is an extremely attractive set when the two players create a balance. At game 12, no one lost the break and need a tie-break series to determine the victory.
In the gun battle series, Thiem is a better competition. He won 2 mini breaks to lead 5-1 before “finishing” Paul with a score of 7-2.
Entering the set of 3 decisions, Paul was the better start when winning the previous break in game 2 and quickly took the lead 3-0. In the rest of the set, Thiem tried to reclaim the break in Game 9, thereby balancing the score 5-5 and 6-6.
Once again, Thiem and Paul had to pull together in a tie-break series. Thiem won the mini break right at the first point and then lead 3-0. Paul then played well to equalize 3-3 and lead 6-4. At this time, Thiem has shown his bravery to save 2 match point, then win a choking victory with a score of 8-6.
In the end, Thiem defeated Tommy Paul after 3 sets to be present in the second round of Vienna Open. Notably, in the second round, he will face the winner in the No. 1 seed pair Daniil Medvedev vs Nikoloz Basilashvili.
