2023-05-09 16:47:49
Austria’s top tennis player Dominic Thiem easily mastered his opening hurdle at the home challenger in Mauthausen on Tuesday. The 29-year-old won his first game against the Burgenland qualifier Matthias Ujvary 6:4,6:2. The top-seeded favorite set the course for winning the set with an early break, in the second round he took the serve away from his 18-year-old opponent in his Challenger main draw debut to make it 5-2.
Three other Austrians also made it into the round of 16 in this clay court tournament worth 118,000 euros on Tuesday. Sebastian Ofner (No. 6) defeated Germany’s Louis Wessels 6:7(2)6:47:5, Dennis Novak (8) overcame France’s Harold Mayot 2:6,6:2,6:2 and Sandro Kopp overcame the Bulgarian hurdle Alexander Lazarov after a 1:6,2:3 after the opponent gave up.
“The first step has been taken,” said Thiem in the “on court” interview. Should he win the title, he could play his way into the top 70 in the world rankings. The 29-year-old’s next opponent on Wednesday (not before 2.30 p.m.) is a slightly larger caliber Argentinian Federico Delbonis. Ofner meets the Swiss Damien Wenger (SUI), Novak also meets Kopp on Thursday and Filip Misolic (5) and Gerald Melzer, who advanced on Monday, meet the Romanian Marius Copil (2nd match after 10 a.m.) and the Argentine on Wednesday Facundo Bagnis (3).
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