MADRID, 19 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem and the young Jordanian Abedallah Shelbayh were graced this Wednesday with the last two invitations to play the final draw of the Mutua Madrid Open, the fourth Masters 1000 of the season to be held at the Caja Mágica between April 24 and May 7th.
Thiem, 2020 US Open champion, is currently fighting to re-establish himself among the best after overcoming a serious wrist injury that currently keeps him out of the ‘Top 100’ and on the clay in the capital he was a finalist twice, in 2017 against the Spanish Rafa Nadal and in 2018 against the German Alexander Zverev.
For his part, Shelbayh, 19 years old and ranked 267 in the ATP ranking, is a tennis player who is being trained at the Rafa Nadal Academy and who these days is playing the ATP 250 in Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina ) and where he has enjoyed his first professional victory, making history for his country, beating the Swede Elias Ymer.
The Austrian and the Jordanian join as guests by the organization of the Mutua Madrid Open another illustrious man like the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, triple winner of the ‘Grand Slam’ and finalist in Madrid in 2013 against Nadal, and another young man like the Spanish Martín Landaluce, Current junior world number one.
On the other hand, for the final draw of the WTA 1000 that will take place at the same time, the ‘wild cards’ have been awarded to the Spanish Rebeka Masarova and Marina Bassols, the Andorran Victoria Jiménez and the Czech Brenda Fruhvirtova.