Dominic Thiem also won his second singles match against Belarus in the Davis Cup duel on Saturday. In the meaningless fourth match of the country comparison, Ilya Ivashka from Lower Austria defeated Ilya Ivashka in barely two sets 6:4 and 7:6 (5). Earlier, Oliver Marach and Philipp Oswald had already made it into the second round of the Europe/Africa Zone I.
In the first set Thiem showed a concentrated performance, where a break to 4:3 was decisive. In the second round Thiem did not move very well and missed a few forehand balls. Ivashka managed an early 2-0 break, but Thiem quickly made up for it.
Both players played their serve games afterwards, a tiebreak had to decide. In this match Thiem turned his first match point with a worth seeing passing ball and after one hour and 44 minutes set it to 4:0.
“Of course, I want to win every match,” Thiem said after the match. I was able to train some things well, it was the right decision to play this match.”
After his victory against Ivashka, Thiem is now 6-3 in the Davis Cup. At the end of the meeting with Belarus Dennis Novak will meet Yaraslav Shyla. It was a lot of fun, I hope you’re also cheering for Dennis,”said Thiem in the direction of the approximately 2,500 spectators at the VAZ in St. Gallen. Pölten.