Thiem and Rodionov reach Gstaad round of 16

2023-07-17 17:09:10

Austria’s tennis players reached the round of 16 on Monday at the ATP 250 clay court tournament in Gstaad, which is endowed with 630,705 euros, with two-set victories. First, Dominic Thiem celebrated his first win on the ATP tour since the end of April with a 6: 1.7: 6 (4) over Frenchman Alexandre Muller. After that, Jurij Rodionov won against the Swiss Marc-Andrea Hüsler (SUI) after a strong 73 minutes with 6:3.7:5.

Thiem now meets the Serbian Hamad Medjedovic, Rodionov is favorite against the Belgian Zizou Bergs.

Gstaad is good ground for Thiem. He had won the title in 2015 in three previous appearances, and last year the 2020 US Open winner made it to the semifinals in the year of his comeback. Muller is currently 18 places ahead of Thiem in the world rankings as 76th, but had little to do in the first set. The 26-year-old only wrote with the equalizer to make it 1-1. In the second round, Muller put up much more resistance. Thiem had to fend off four breakballs before the tie-break he dominated.

“I’m very happy with the win against a great player,” said Thiem in an interview on the pitch. He is expected to contest his round of 16 on Wednesday. After his first-round success on April 27 in Madrid against the British Kyle Edmund, Thiem had only written at Challenger level until Monday, the highlight was the entry into the semi-finals in Mauthausen, in which he defeated Medjedovic in their first duel 6: 7( 3), 2:6 lost. The 19-year-old is currently world number 183.

Rodionov managed in the left-hander duel with the world number 84. Hüsler the first break of the game to 3:1. This was enough for the Lower Austrian to win the set 6:3. Set two was more contested and went up to 5:5 with the serve, but then Rodionov managed the break to 6:5. The world number 118 served in a sovereign manner. then off to zero.

“Switzerland is very good ground for me. I’ve already won two Challengers here,” said Rodionov happily while still on the pitch. “I feel at home here. It might be a bit expensive but I’m getting used to it,” he joked.

Meanwhile, Styrian Filip Misolic entered the main competition in Baastad in Sweden. The 21-year-old benefited in the second qualifying round from the surrender of Bosnian Damir Dzumhur in the first game. Misolic meets Serb Dusan Lajovic on Tuesday (11:00 a.m.).

The winner of the Salzburg Challenger, Sebastian Ofner, is also engaged at the same venue, the Styrian starts against the Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry, who is number six. His match is scheduled as the 4th match after 11am on Tuesday.

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