ATP Masters Madrid: Thiem shines in the Radio Tsitsipas program
Dominic Thiem aroused new desires on the big stage with his inspiring performance against Stefanos Tsitsipas at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Madrid. Now it's off to the Challenger in Mauthausen.
by Jens Huiber
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Apr 29, 2023, 11:01 pm
Radio Tsitsipas broadcast again on Saturday evening in Madrid on a continuous loop: head DJ Apostolos kept talking to his son Stefanos, with sidekick Yulia you didn't really know whether she also wanted to make her contribution to the entertainment program or just wanted to catch her husband a little . What would you have given to be able to speak Greek.
Dominic Thiem's box made it easier for the attentive listener: Duglas Cordero, fitness coach and at the same time head of the "Attack department", only accompanied his protégé's efforts with a continuous fire of "push" calls.
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Whether and who helped what - who knows? In any case, Stefanos Tsitsipas was able to pull through his performance with amazing concentration from the middle of the first sentence. There was actually a stretch of 39 first serves that the Greek hit in a row. And there was Dominic Thiem, who showed incredible nerves of steel in the third set, especially in the eleventh game, where he fended off five breakballs.
Thiem next in Mauthausen
A few things came together that evening: For Tsitsipas it was the first appearance in singles in Madrid 2023, he was not the only top player who had problems at his premiere. And then Tsitsipas meets Dominic Thiem, who seemed to really enjoy his tennis. In addition, the audience, which was more in the camp of the Austrian.
Is the good old footballer wisdom coming, according to which you can learn a lot from this defeat? Slow down, slow down. Full grandstands (at least towards the end of the match) in the Manolo Santana stadium, an opponent who fits Dominic Thiem's game quite well, of course it's easy to say afterwards: No wonder that an Instant Classic came out of it in the end is.
However, there will also be full grandstands at Dominic Thiem's next planned start. Albeit a size smaller: At the ATP Challenger tournament in Mauthausen, the Austrian leads the entry list. With this performance in Madrid at the latest, Thiem made sure that the fans would run into the organizers.
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