After that there were “many difficult moments,” Wawrinka told the newspaper “Le Matin”, including doubts about his return.
In the past few weeks, his foot has gotten better. Between 2014 and 2016, Wawrinka won his titles at the Australian Open, the French Open and the US Open.
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Against Elias Ymer, currently number 131 in the ATP ranking, the Swiss was on the pitch for 93 minutes.
However, the error rate of the veteran was too high, especially with his own serve, which gave the Swede no fewer than eleven (!) Break chances.
Ymer used six of them and ultimately deservedly made it into the quarterfinals.
Thiem: “Very, very hard time for me”
Thiem suffered a wrist injury at the grass tournament in Mallorca last June and hasn’t played a match since. “It was a very, very difficult time for me,” said the 28-year-old recently about the long compulsory break: “I know that it will take a long time to get back to the top level.”
In New York in 2020, Thiem achieved his greatest success to date with the narrow final victory over Alexander Zverev, after which he fell into a mental “hole” and spoke of a “certain emptiness”.
The injury then bothered him, Thiem kept postponing his comeback.
Thiem leaves too many chances
As world number 50. the Austrian was top seeded at the Andalucía Open, which can look forward to a strong field of participants at the beginning of the clay court season. Nevertheless, after 81 minutes came the end against Cachin, who is listed at position 228 in the ranking.
One problem: Thiem created seven break chances, but only used one. The Argentine did better, hitting three times in four chances.
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