Dominic Thiem powers past Christian Garin 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Vienna on Thursday after playing a marvellous match to deal with Andrey Rublev in the quarter.
Live score progression and stats
Thiem had a favorable start in this set after breaking Garin in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That was enough for the Austrian to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks.
The Austrian converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Austrian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 49 points. Thiem was the winner of the set after clinching 11 points more than Christian (30-19). Thiem was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (20-4). On the losing side, the Chilean conceded 10 points on serve (15-10).
The Austrian in this set played at a much higher level than the Chilean and consequently he won 6-2 after breaking the Chilean in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Christian couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 1-2 to 6-2.
The Austrian converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Austrian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 44 points. The Austrian was the winner of the set after clinching 8 more points than the Chilean (26-18). The Austrian conceded 6 points on serve (16-6). On the other side, Christian conceded 10 points on serve (12-10).
Thiem will add to his prize money € 8,745 after winning this match. He has won already € 41,500 after this win. If he wins the next match, Dominic will add € 19,500 to his earnings to get in total € 61,000 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Dominic scored 56 points vs. Christian’s 37.
Dominic served pretty well to win 83% of the points (25/30) behind his first serve, and he won 69% points (11/16) on his second serve. Dominic won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points since he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities. On the other side, Garin wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, Dominic was just to good and Garin had no opportunity to win this match.
After this match, the head to head between Thiem and Garin is 1-0 for Dominic.
Highlights Dominic Thiem vs. Christian Garin Erste Bank Open – Vienna
Draw and next match H2H: Dominic Thiem vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Thiem will play Rublev in the quarter.
This will be the 4th time that Dominic Thiem and Andrey Rublev face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Thiem (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
Tennis Scores in Vienna
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Vasek PospisilPospisil (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – Jurij RodionovRodionov (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-75 6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Christian GarinGarin (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (7-66 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Jannik SinnerSinner (2-1 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Borna CoricCoric (7-611 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Kevin AndersonAnderson – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (7-5 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Kevin AndersonAnderson – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Daniel EvansEvans (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Andrey RublevRublev – Dominic ThiemThiem (1-2) – H2H details and stats
