Live now! Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev battle for first Grand Slam title tennisnet.com

… won the elections. And decided to back off.

… as a better placed player than second on the court.

… get out first. And he thinks it will be the most difficult game at the 2020 US Open. He has to start better than in the other games.

… In New York. When in doubt, there would also be a roof. But as Dominic said a few days ago: Arthur Ashe Stadium is almost like a hallway anyway. Even with an open roof.

Good: the crystal ball was milky, the tea leaves literally unreadable, and the solitaire I just placed did not yield any clear results either. So the hunch. Let’s go with Brad Gilbert: Dominic in four. You are happy to reserve the right to see it completely differently.

… can you start early enough? Well, because the broadcast rights of the final are no longer from a station that also deals with the NFL. Some players and many more fans had to wait from time to time until the first football matches were over.

… Dominic is ahead with 16:11. However, in terms of quality, one could also argue in favor of Sascha: three Masters 100 titles (Thiem has one) plus the victory at the 2018 ATP Finals (Thiem was in the final there in 2019).

… Dominic Thiem: Vienna, 2019, in the final against Diego Schwartzman. Last victory of the Alexander Zverev tournament: Geneva, 2019, in the final against Nicolas Jarry.

… between Thiem and Zverev we have already mentioned: 7: 2 for Dominic. That’s not a bad sample size. Especially since the two have faced each other on almost every surface. Except for the grass. Anyway, those times have ended for decades at the US Open.

… important German-Austrian duels in recent sporting history: Schladming 2013 – Hirscher versus Neureuther. Monte Carlo 1995 – skipper against Becker. Leverkusen 2002 – DFB team against Roland Goriupp. Wait. Than?

Jez Green and Alex Stober will already be rotating. O. let your protégés Zverev and Thiem rotate.

… of course it should not be missing here. It was in 1994 that Stichl was the last German in the US Open final. But it had almost as little order as the Shaker eight and a half years later: Andre Agassi was on fire that last Sunday, too.

… today you can also see how many people are actually in the stadium. To quote Brad Gilbert again: he’s assuming 500. Who are those people? Nobody knows. Still. But our 14-person research subject has already taken a position at Corona Park in Flushing Meadows and will be conducting personal checks there.

… in a grand finale, before Dominic Thiem, of course, there was Thomas Muster. 1995, Paris, Michael Chang, 3-0 phrases please thank you.

Or something like that. The invasion is announced for 10 pm We are ready.

… finalist in a specialty? Rainer Schüttler in 2003 against the great Andre Agassi. At that time the shaker had no order.

… on the other hand at the 2020 Australian Open in the semi-finals. We remember. That is also a close story. Dominic won in four sets.

… between Sascha and Dominic there was 2016 in Munich. If you can remember: back then, the guys trained together in the cold, then Zverev was disturbed by a tight decision. Thiem won the match, but not the tournament: in the final Philipp Kohlschreiber took the lead in the third set tie-break.

… comes out today: Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev took the next week off. No trip to Rome, so no Foro Italico. It will be exciting to see if both will serve in Hamburg. Or if one, perhaps both, will go to Paris without playing sand games.

… The Russian is a bit rusty. Otherwise, we could have looked for an explanation for this tweet by Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

As much as I like Dominic Thiem, but personally I think that for the future of men’s tennis it would be better for Sasha Zverev to win #United States Open title tomorrow!

– Kafelnikov Yevgeny (@KYevgeni) September 12, 2020

… designed in the spirit of the Humpe sisters and diving Joesi Prokopetz and Fredi. DÖF – German-Austrian Sensitivity. “Elbow”, 1983 was the one who can remember. In short: we are looking forward to the final.

… we have already found the gold today: Miomir Kecmanovic has been placed behind Dominic Thiem in the list of winners of the Generali Open. With a final victory over Yannick Hanfmann.

… servus, the boy. We started looking for a successor for Rafael Nadal. Thiem or Zverev (for us normal observers)? Domi or Sascha (for those who are close friends of the two heroes)? We do not know. That is why we are looking at it. And we will try to shorten the time until 10 pm in an elegant way.