Dominic Thiem and Stefanos Tsitsipas finished their 10th career meeting with Tsitsipas as the victor and set to face Andy Murray in the second round Thursday.
It’s a good thing rankings aren’t listed before names on the schedule, too, or it might have been overlooked. It makes sense for fifth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas to have drawn the player ranked 91st in the world as his first-round opponent. What made things a bit trickier is that person was Dominic Thiem.Thiem and Tsitsipas finished their 10th career meeting with Tsitsipas as the victor and set to face Andy Murray in the second round Thursday. The win left their head-to-head record at 5-5.
The 29-year-old explained after that, yes, he was in dire need of that reminder less than three years after capturing his Grand Slam title at the 2020 U.S. Open against Alexander Zverev.That match was a mountain, played in the empty stands at New York’s Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the thick of the pandemic and in the wake of Novak Djokovic’s controversial expulsion earlier in the tournament because he.
Finally healthy, Thiem gathered himself and has worked his way back from No. 352 last year to inside the top 100. This meeting with Tsitsipas seemed to open a time portal back to 2019. They played the super tiebreaker to 7-7, at which moment Thiem unloaded a serve that clipped the edge of the line so precisely a cloud of white dust puffed into the air. But he netted a driving forehand and lost the point. A backhand error gave Tsitsipas a 9-7 lead, after which Thiem took the time to gulp a few calming breaths at the baseline before placing a venomous forehand out of Tsitsipas’s reach.
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