The Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev, number 14 in the ATP ranking, won this Saturday the exhibition tournament “Thiem's 7” in the Austrian city of Kiztbühel, by defeating the Austrian in the final Dominic Thiem, third world racket and favorite of this contest, for 6-2, 5-7 and 10-8.
Due to heavy rains, the party had to be suspended for about two hours. Rublev, 22, reached the final after beating the Italian Matteo Berrettini, eighth in the world, 6-4 and 7-6 (6), in a game previous that it also had delays due to bad weather, the agency reported APA.
Become tournament champion, the young muscovite took the winning check for 100,000 euros ($ 113,000). The contest, organized by Thiem this week before a maximum capacity of 500 spectators and strict measures to avoid contagion by coronavirus, It has been one of those contested in Europe waiting for the ATP circuit to resume, suspended since March by the COVID-19 pandemic.