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Andrey Rublev call defending champion Dominic Thiem at the Erste Bank Open 2020 in Vienna on Friday (second match after 2pm, live on ServusTV and on our live ticker). The Russian has already won four tournaments this year.
from tennisnet.com
Last edit: October 30, 2020, 10:43 am
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Normally it can be assumed that the ATP world ranking does not lie: whoever has the most points is the best player of the last twelve months. Who has the eighth most, the eighth best. In the Corona year, however, everything is different, with the frozen points that Roger Federer, who has not played a single tournament match since his semifinals in Melbourne, cemented in fourth place.
Andrey Rublev is currently in eighth place. If Dominic Thiem has his way, the Russian plays much better, for him Rublev is not just one of the five favorite companions of the tour. But also one of the top five tennis players in the world right now. An assessment that ServusTV expert Alex Antonitsch also followed on the current issue of the tennisnet podcast “Quiet, please.”
Zverev wins in Hamburg and St. Petersburg
In fact, Rublev made a splash in the weeks after the restart, winning both the Hamburg and St. Petersburg tournaments. Both events of the 500 series, such as the first Bank Open in Vienna, where Andrey Rublev will meet Dominic Thiem in the second quarterfinals on Friday after 2pm (live on ServusTV and on our live ticker). At the beginning of the year, Rublev had already been successful in Doha and Adelaide.
The victory in Hamburg, in which Rublev returned in the final against Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Muscovite had to pay dearly: with a high degree of exhaustion, which later reached him in the quarterfinals of the French Open against Tsitsipas. In Vienna, Rublev has not let anything burn. However, the tournament did very well with him: first it was against qualifier Norbert Gombos, Rublev won 6: 3 and 6: 2. In Thursday’s round of 16, Jannik Sinner could only play three games, but then had to retiring due to foot injury.
Last meeting with Thiem in Kitzbühel
Rublev sees the record against Dominic Thiem with 1: 2 behind. There was already a meeting in Vienna in 2017, when the Austrian won. In Monte Carlo in the spring of 2018 it was already tighter. And in 2019 in Hamburg, Rublev won for the first time on the ATP tour against Thiem. Like the last match, which is not included in any statistics: in the final of Thiem’s 7-invite tournament in Kitzbühel this summer. Since Dominic Thiem had beaten his quarterfinal opponent Vienna in the preliminary round.
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