Dominic Thiem will enter the ATP tournament in the Wiener Stadthalle on Tuesday (not before 7 pm in the LIVE-TICKER). With #NextGen star Andrey Rublev, the 24-year-old Lichtenwörther has pulled one of the most difficult opener.
Tuesday is THIEMstag! After his messed-up tour of Asia, Austria’s number one at the home tournament wants to find its way back into the road to success. Thiem had lost his rhythm after the US Open. Drawn by strenuous appearances in the Davis and Laver Cup, there were three defeats in the Far East.
In order to prevent the autumn crisis from becoming an autumn depression, it’s time to pull the lever:”I want to pull the wheel here again,” Thiem said in front of his seventh main field appearance at the Stadthallen tournament. I just want to play good tennis again, which I have certainly shown too little in the last few tournaments. If I do that, the results will be satisfactory.”
Good results in the Wiener Stadthalle were rarely sown at Thiem in recent years. In 2013, the current number six in the world was in the quarter-finals, otherwise it was over after the second round at the latest. Last year he suffered a bitter one-quarter-final defeat against Viktor Troicki.
Thiem has not yet crossed the blades with Andrey Rublev. The youngster’s latest results suggest that the first competition comparison with the 20-year-old Russian will not be a casual gallop.
After his first ATP win in Umag, Rublev was the youngest player to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open since Andy Roddick in 2001. In Beijing he celebrated respectable victories against Jack Sock and Tomas Berdych before Alexander Zverev was too big in the round of the last eight.
Consequently, the world rankings-35. The qualification for the NextGen ATP finals in Milan has already been secured. To get a place on the seed list for the Australian Open, Rublev would have a successful premiere in Vienna.
Betting provider Interwetten, however, sees Dominic Thiem as a favourite, equipping the Lower Austrian with a odds of 1.30. Andrey Rublev’s win will be 3.20. Interwetten also offers special bets around Thiem, Sebastian Ofner, Dennis Novak and the German professionals in Vienna.
Quotas as of: Tuesday, 24. October, 10:00.