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It has been around for more than five hours. Dominic Thiem versus Diego schwartzman – Then, the Argentine was able to celebrate his entry into the semi-finals of Roland Garros 2020. This is the end of an outstanding series for the Austrian.
by Jens Huiber
Last edit: October 06, 2020, 10:18 pm
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And so, on a cool, windy, sometimes humid afternoon in Paris, a series of eleven individual Grand Slam victories came to an end, starting against Jaume Munar in completely different conditions at the Louis Armstrong stadium in the city of New York: Dominic Thiem fought Diego Schwartzman with everything he had in the tank. It was not enough. Schwartzman, who unlike Thiem during Corona’s hiatus due to restrictions in Argentina was unable to train as much (and also play in several exhibition fights) as his good friend Thiem, has been getting increasingly fitter over the past few weeks. . After a rather modest appearance at Kitzbühel in Rome, Rafael Nadal was defeated for the first time, only losing in the final against Novak Djokovic.
After Thiem came close to reaching the semi-finals at Roland Garros again towards the end of the fourth set, Schwartzman channeled his inner Djokovic – there were no more free points for his opponent, Thiem had to risk too much, too much to get his points. “In these conditions it will always be difficult against Diego,” Thiem explained in his post-match press conference. “Because you don’t really take him to the zone where he doesn’t like to play. He has all the balls at a relatively comfortable height. But that’s more due to the slowness. And not the balls. For my game, like Babolat’s. But I was still comfortable with him. You have a very good feeling with them, they are very good on the racket. It was definitely not because of today’s balls. “
Schwartzman vs. Sinner or Nadal
A helpless backhand save that barely reached the net ended Dominic Thiem’s winning streak. An almost ironic lap: with this blow, Hugo Gaston Thiem had forced more than 50 sprints in the round of 16 and played the US Open champion for Diego Schwartzman smoothly. It’s even more remarkable that Thiem left everything on the court for 5:09 hours. 6: 7 (1), 7: 5, 7: 6 (6), 6: 7 (4) and 2: 6, which reads exactly how the match was: A great fight, not always at the highest level Level, which was also due to the gusty wind.
“In a five-set match there are some ups and downs, that’s pretty normal,” Thiem continued. “But I just have the feeling that there were more ups and downs in the fourth round and today than in New York. It shows. At some point the opponent becomes too strong. That is why Diego has it also deservedly won in the fifth set.”
Diego Schwartzman will now work at Rafael Nadal, as long as the Spaniard beats Jannik Sinner. Of course, it would not have been without irony if Thiem, as in the previous year after the two-day fight against Novak Djokovic, had not been able to play with all his strength against the bullfighter.
Thiem soon at the town hall
From Dominic Thiem’s point of view, the balance for the 2020 Grand Slam year remains outstanding: final participation in Melbourne with the loss in five sets to Djokovic, then the epic final against Alexander Zverev with a successful result at the US Open . And now the end against Diego Schwartzman.
If there was an ATP final in London this year (“Of course you don’t know what’s going on at the moment,” says Thiem at PK), Dominic Thiem will of course be qualified for a long time. The next appearance is planned at the Wiener Stadthalle, there are also some questions about the size of the audience. Dominic Thiem and Diego Schwartzman experienced first-hand that almost 1,000 fans can create a good atmosphere in Paris on Tuesday. Seen this way, the Austrian’s series has also come to a worthy end in this regard, in the special circumstances of 2020.
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