2023-10-29 16:40:55
Austria’s tennis star has qualified for the main competition at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Paris. In order to be in the main competition at the Australian Open in January, a win once morest Stan Wawrinka in Paris would be very important.
Save what can still be saved – this is the premise under which Dominic Thiem enters his last two tournament weeks of the year. After a brutally tough season, Austria’s tennis star set the top 100, the main competition at the Australian Open, as the “minimum goal” in January. He is around 40 points short, with two wins in qualifying for the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Paris-Bercy, the 30-year-old took the first two small steps. Thiem defeated the Italian Lorenzo Sonego (ATP number 52) 6:1, 3:6, 7:5 and the Australian Christopher O’Connell (61) 6:4, 6:3. The main competition continues on Monday, where another quite solvable task awaits Stan Wawrinka (45). Thiem has 25 points, a first round win would bring another 20. In round two, the winner of the duel between the Grand Slam winners will face Holger Rune (6).
Sebastian Ofner is still hoping for Lucky Loser
Meanwhile, for Sebastian Ofner (44), by far the most successful season of his career is coming to an end. The Styrian can even finish in the top 40 in 2024, but – unless he slips into the 64 grid in Paris as a lucky loser – he will have to postpone this attempt until next week in Sofia. In Paris, Ofner lost in the qualifying final once morest the Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp (65) 6:7(7), 2:6.
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