2024-04-23 17:08:55
The ÖTV figure head suffered a defeat in the second qualifying round.
After Jurij Rodionov was eliminated in the first round, Dominic Thiem was also beaten in the second round of the opening round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Tuesday. The Lower Austrian (ATP 110), seeded 14th, lost in the qualifying final of the ATP Masters 1000 clay court tournament in the Spanish capital against Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (ATP 93) after about 1:24 hours of play with 1:6, 3:6. The 30-year-old must hope for another chance to slip into the main competition as a lucky loser. The 2020 US Open winner lost as the fourth highest seed – and there has already been a main draw rejection of Britain’s Daniel Evans.
At the beginning of Monday, Thiem defeated the Brazilian Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves (ATP 128) after being 3:5 behind in the third set 6:2, 3:6, 7:5. But the next day, things did not go quite as planned in the first duel with Kokkinakis. While the “Aussie” confidently held all his service games in the first set, Thiem always struggled in his own: he lost the first after two balls, won the second after defending two break points, and finally gave up the third after two. lost chances to win 1:5 of. In the second round, Austria’s number two failed to take advantage of three break chances at 1-0 and 0-40. This took revenge: Kokkinakis won the last four games from 2:3 onwards, and another break chance for Thiem in the eighth game remained unused.
As a result, Red-White-Red is basically only represented by Sebastian Ofner in the main field. The manager (ATP 45) already knows his opponent in the first round: the Argentinian Pedro Cachin (ATP 91), who is still without a win in eleven matches this year and has not won 15 matches in a row throughout the seasons, is waiting for him.
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