2023-08-25 10:16:52
Unpleasant draw for Dominic Thiem, otherwise solvable tasks for the ÖTV aces in New York.
The main competitive matches at the US Open in New York begin next Monday. The draw for this took place on Thursday evening at the last Grand Slam tournament of the season. The three red-white-red representatives should look back on them with mixed feelings. Dominic Thiem was less lucky here, because the 2019 title winner had to face a seed in the first round, number 25 Alexander Bublik. The Lower Austrian (ATP 82) scored 6: 3, 6: 7 (6), 6 :3, 7:5 get the upper hand. With his extremely arrhythmic and varied game, the Kazakh is an extremely unpleasant task. In addition, Thiem had to cancel at short notice for this week’s ATP hard court preparation tournament in Winston-Salem with “a kind of gastritis”, said his manager and brother Moritz Thiem. To what extent this will still mean a restriction for the appearance in Flushing Meadows is unclear and difficult to estimate.
A possible Davis Cup dress rehearsal awaits Sebastian Ofner at the beginning. In his first Grand Slam main field, for which he is directly qualified thanks to his strong season so far thanks to his significantly improved ATP ranking, the Styrian (ATP 59) is dealing with the Portuguese Nuno Borges (ATP 79) for the first time. A duel that might happen once more in three weeks at the international match Austria – Portugal in Multiversum Schwechat (September 15/16). In any case, there is a reunion for Julia Grabher: Austria’s number one for women (WTA 54) meets the Chinese Xiyu Wang (WTA 84) in round one, once morest whom she only played this week in the opening round of the WTA 250 event in Cleveland won 6-3, 6-4. The Vorarlberger was then eliminated in the round of 16. However, only Filip Misolic and Sinja Kraus still have the chance to strengthen the ÖTV trio in the main competition via the qualification. The second round matches of the Styrian (ATP 168) once morest the Belgian Kimmer Coppejans (ATP 148) and the Viennese (WTA 208) once morest the fifth-ranked Belgian Greet Minnen (WTA 98) might not be held on Thursday due to the weather and are now scheduled for Friday from 4:00 p.m clock CEST to be made up for.
Novak eliminated in qualifying
For Dennis Novak there is no longer a chance of his third main draw at the US Open following 2018 and 2020. The Lower Austrian (ATP 187) was beaten by Australian Marc Polmans (ATP 175) 3:6, 1:6 in the second qualifying round. After an hour-long rain break when the score was 4:3 and 30:15 for Polmans on his serve, Novak was only able to win one game. At the start, the 29-year-old, who is celebrating his 30th birthday on Monday, eliminated the Belgian ex-world number seven and four-time Grand Slam quarter-finalist David Goffin (ATP 96) 7: 6 (5), 6: 3.
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