Disappointing Results for Dominic Thiem and Sebastian Ofner at the Winston-Salem Open

2023-08-23 05:46:13

Even in doubles, he and the duo Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler were not granted a win.

From a red-white-red point of view, the Winston-Salem Open didn’t exactly go well. After wildcard holder Dominic Thiem was unable to play his opening game due to “a kind of gastritis” (according to his brother and manager Moritz Thiem), Sebastian Ofner is now also early in the ATP 250 hard court preparation tournament for the US Open in New York eliminated. After a bye at the beginning, the 15th seeded Styrian (ATP 59) lost in the second round to Alex Michelsen (ATP 133), who was only 18 years old and had a wild card, 6: 7 (4), 5: 7. After the bitter opening defeat of the Generali Open Kitzbühel following a 6: 4, 5: 0 lead and two missed match points, the 27-year-old did not have the hoped-for sense of achievement before the US Open. Nevertheless, Ofner will be in the main draw for the first time at the last Grand Slam tournament of the season (in Wimbledon he had been allowed to serve with a wildcard in the main competition), thanks to his extremely strong performances this year.

For Ofner there would certainly have been more once morest Michelsen, who had not even appeared in the ATP ranking by the end of March 2022 and has since made a truly meteoric rise. However, the St. Mareiner was unable to take advantage of three chances at 2:0 and 0:40 as a setback and another chance at 3:1 for a double break, finally conceding the equalizer at 4:3 and losing out in the tie-break. In the second round he missed the first breakball once more at 1:0, but was then able to make up for a loss of service to 2:3 to 4:4 – but another zero to 5:6 sealed his end a little later. Ofner did not fare any better in doubles: with the Australian Max Purcell, Wimbledon doubles winner in 2022 and Australian Open doubles finalist in 2020 and 2022, he lost in the first round once morest Gonzalo Escobar (Ecuador) and Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Kazakhstan) with 2 :6, 1:6. Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler only held up the red-white-red flag for a short time this time: The ÖTV Davis Cup top doubles had to face this year’s Australian Open finalists, the bow to three lined up Hugo Nys (Monaco) and Jan Zielinski (Poland), with 2:6, 4:6. If successful, the three ÖTV aces would have met in the quarter-finals.

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