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Defending champion Dominic Thiem is in the quarterfinals of the € 1,550,950 Erste Bank Open in Vienna on Thursday The City Council moved.
The hometown hero, who was much better than his first match against lucky Ukrainian underdog Vitaliy Sachko, didn’t give Chilean Cristian Garin a chance and defeated the current world number 22. in 65 minutes with 6: 3, 6: 2. The next opponent of the 27-year-old Austrian bass is Russian Andrey Rublev (ATP rank 8), who in his round of 16 game with a score of 2: 1 in the first set of the abandonment of his opponent Jannik Sinner (ITA) due to an injury to his right foot. benefited.
“I played much better today, but I think the first match against Sachko was normal after the long break. And against an opponent that he did not even know and who played much better than his ranking says. I found my intensity at the end and continued like this today It was a very good game, very solid from start to finish. I played very well against a good opponent, “said a satisfied Thiem, who has great respect for his quarter-final opponent, Rublev:” He’s a great guy who I get along very well with.
We train together in almost every tournament and he has also been part of the preparation for Tenerife. Play very fast and with almost no problems. Now he’s been in the top ten, but for me he’s definitely one of the top three or five players right now, ”Thiem said.
In direct duels, the Austrian leads 2-1. Thiem won the Erste Bank Open in two sets three years ago and in 2018 he again forced Rublev to kneel on clay in Monte Carlo in three sets. The last match so far, however, was decided by the 23-year-old Russian last year, also on clay in Hamburg, twice in the tie-break. Rublev has already celebrated four tournament victories (Doha, Adelaide, Hamburg, St. Petersburg) in the current season and has a total of six ATP titles.
For Jurij Rodionov, who was the second Austrian to reach the round of 16, however, the end came. The 21-year-old from Lower Austria had to admit defeat to Britain’s Daniel Evans after a match time of 1:43 hours with 5: 7, 3: 6. Rodionov showed his great talent in stages, but in stages tense nerves played a trick on him, which was also reflected in five double errors. “Today I lacked the experience and the instinct of what to do in difficult situations.
He knew exactly when to play which shot. That’s what I missed today, “said Rodionov, who also admitted that he was more tense against Evans than with his sensational first-round win against world number twelve Denis Shapovalov:” It was mentally much more difficult than against Shapovalov, against who didn’t have high expectations. . Today I wanted to win because the opportunity was great, but unfortunately I could not approach the game relaxed enough, “added Rodionov.
Press release Erste Bank Open
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29.10.2020
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