After being eliminated early at Delray Beach Open, the Learner Tien is now available in Mexico to attend Mexican Open. This is the tournament in the ATP 500 category on the hard pitch, held in the city of Acapulco.
With the 83rd ranking on the current ATP, Learner Tien must play from the qualifying round. In the first round, he only takes 1 hour 9 minutes to overcome Federico Agustin Gomez with a score of 6-1, 6-3. In the second round, he continued to beat Dusan Lajovic after 2 sets.
In the main round, Tien's first opponent was Cameron Norrie. Entering Set 1, the two players create a very tense game. Tien won the break early right in game 2, but did not keep the advantage.
Coming to Game 7, Norrie reclaimed the successful break to bring the set back to the balance. At 2 games 9 and 10, the two players exchanged breaks again before pulling together in the tie-break series. Here, Tien played bravery to win 7-5.
Set Set 2, the better the Vietnamese player plays. He has 3 times to win compared to 1 of Norrie. Set closed with a 6-3 victory in favor of a 19-year-old player.
With this result, Tien officially won tickets to the second round of Mexican Open 2025. In other matches, the No. 2 seed Casper Ruud was also present in the second round after defeating Arthur Rinderknech with a score of 6-4 6-3.
