Austrian Dominic Thiem reconfirmed his status as one of the fittest players after confinement when rising this Wednesday with the triumph in the tournament exhibition hall, after beating 6-7- (4), 6-4 and 10-8 in the final against Italian Matteo Berrettini.
A victory that rewarded the mental strength of the Central European tennis player, than when he seemed to have it all against him he managed to force the third and definitive manga, in which Thiem prevailed in the “super tie-break” by 10-8. Nor Berrettini's gunshots, with serves greater than 220 kilometers per hour, Neither the impossibility of forcing a single breaking ball in the entire first set made the Austrian player desperate.
And that Thiem, number 3 in the world ranking, seemed against the ropes after giving up the first set in the tie-break 7-4 and stand with two adverse “break” balls in the second game of the second set. But then the best version of Dominic Thiem emerged who not only managed to save his serve, but managed to position himself with a 4-3 advantage on the scoreboard, after breaking up, for the first and only time in the match, the Italian service.
A “break” that seemed to give the Austrian wings on the Berlin grass, in which since then there was only one player, Dominic Thiem. Superiority that allowed the Chilean pupil Nicolás Massú not only to win the second set 6-4, but also the third, in which the Central European prevailed in the “super tie-brek” by 10-8.
A result that allowed Thiem, who last Saturday fell in the final of his tournament, the “Thiem's 7” against the Russian Andrei Rublev, to win his second tournament after the return to competition, after prevailing last June on the controversial Adria Tour.
Conversely, we will have to wait until next Friday to know the winner of the women's tournament, after the organization's decision to postpone the final between Czech Petra Kvitova and Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, scheduled for today, in the absence of light due to delay caused by rain falling in the German capital.