Dominic Thiem steps forward at home, in the ATP 500 from Vienna, and before a good entrance of public that was noticed and encouraged him unconditionally. The Austrian signed a solid match against Christian Garín to seal your ticket to the quarterfinals by a score of 6-3 and 6-2 in just 66 minutes of play.
The number 3 in the world ranking and second seed in the Austrian tournament made sure that the duel did not have too much history from the beginning. In the second game he already broke his rival's service to get the set back on track, an advantage that he would not miss. The Chilean's game, always combative from the back of the court, loses its bite on this type of hard surface indoors, since his topspin game, ideal on clay, hardly bothered Thiem.
With the first set in his pocket, Thiem waited for his chance in the second to end the match, and he did so in the fifth game thanks to Garín's mistakes. The South American delivered the service with a double fault that was his undoing. In the quarterfinals, Thiem will have an even tougher stumbling block on the other side of the track: Andrey Rublev. The Russian continues to accumulate victories in a brilliant season and comes to this match without suffering any wear and tear by taking advantage of the Jannik Sinner withdrawal due to injury (2-1 dominated the Russian).
Medvedev struggles
Who suffered much more to reach the next round was Daniil Medvedev. The Russian continues immersed in an irregular tennis, but was able to carry out his match against the always leathery Vasek Pospisil in three sets: 6-4, 3-6 and 6-2. His next rival will be Kevin Anderson, the executioner of the Asturian Pablo Carreño on the day last Wednesday. The surprise of the day was the signature of Lorenzo Sonego, who beat Hubert Hurkacz in a very tough game (double 7-6) to face this Friday with the favorite for the title and number 1 in the world, Novak Djokovic. The day was closed by the intense duel they staged Stefanos Tsitsipas and Grigor Dimitrov, that after a two and a quarter hour battle he fell to the side of the Bulgarian: 6-7, 6-4 and 6-3.