The focus of the 2nd round of the Swedish Open 2022 is the victory of the former World Dominic Third player Dominic Thiem. He spent more than two and a half hours to defeat Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-4, thereby booking tickets to the quarterfinals.
Austrian player could not attend many big tournaments in the second half of last season because of his wrist injury. Meanwhile, since he came back, he has not really regained the best feeling.
That is why Thiem was very suspicious when coming to Swedish Open 2022. The evidence was that before that, he lost 6 matches and was soon eliminated in the past tournaments. In 2021, Thiuem lost 11 matches.
It all made him fall down without braking on the ATP rankings, now 339 in the world. Therefore, even when improving the performance with the victory in the first round of the Swedish Open 2022, when in the second round, Thiem was still questioned, especially when his opponent ranked 20th in the world and was much better.
And the real difficulty came to Dominic Thiem. Roberto Bautista Agut started better and took the lead early with a break. But Thiem controlled the situation after that and won the tie-break series.
In the second set, the Austrian player had to serve twice, Roberto Bautista Agut took advantage of the errors of Thiem to reach the destination with a 6-3 victory, thereby balancing 1-1.
In the last set, the situation was easy with Thiem due to the opponent making many mistakes. And he did not miss the opportunity to get 6-4, set the final score 2-1. Thus, after 14 months, Thiem has only reached the quarterfinals of A ATP for the first time since May 2021 in Madrid last year.
The quarterfinal results of Swedish Open 2022 and Hall of Fame Open 2022
