Dominic Thiem notched his 26th victory of the season on Tuesday to start his Open Parc Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Lyon. The top-seeded Thiem beat Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena, Ecuador Open titlist, 6-2, 6-4 in 71 minutes. [ALSO LIKE] Thiem won 80 per cent of his service points and didn't face a break point in the second-round matchup. The Austrian and nine-time ATP World Tour champion will next meet another Spaniard in Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, who beat France's Calvin Hemery 7-6(4), 6-3 to reach his third tour-level quarter-final of the season. Garcia-Lopez, who also reached quarter-finals on clay in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, won 81 per cent of service points and saved all three break points faced to advance. Slovakian qualifier Filip Horansky...
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Dominic Thiem's Mutua Madrid Open quarter-final against Rafael Nadal went exactly how the Austrian envisioned. The 24-year-old played aggressively, but he also didn't spray too unforced errors against the No. 1 player in the ATP Rankings as Thiem snapped Nadal's 50-set and 21-match win streaks last week. The most important factor in Thiem's well-executed game plan, however, was the self-belief that he carried onto the court. “I went in with the attitude that I can beat him,” Thiem said. “It was very important I went in with a positive attitude, with an attitude to win. Like this I should go in every match against him.” Thiem, who fell in the Madrid final to Alexander Zverev, might have another opportunity to increase...
Watch as Dominic Thiem explainss how the confidence he gained in reaching the final in Madrid will help him ahead of the 2018 Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
For the second consecutive year, Dominic Thiem narrowly missed out on winning his maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title at the Mutua Madrid Open. Thiem, who fell to Alexander Zverev 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday, lost to Rafael Nadal in the 2017 Madrid final. But the 24-year-old Austrian will leave the Spanish capital with something nearly as important as his first Masters 1000 crown: confidence. Thiem beat two Top 10 players – then-No. 1 Nadal and then-No. 8 Kevin Anderson – in addition to BNP Paribas Open semi-finalist Borna Coric and Argentina's Federico Delbonis to reach his second Madrid final. After quarter-final departures at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters (l. to Nadal) and the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (l. to Tsitsipas),...
