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His slump--albeit a brief one--could be easily explained. The 21-year-old had to fulfill an offseason commitment to the Austrian army, so his November and December were hardly like those months for any other professional tennis player. Moreover, long-time training partner Ernests Gulbis split from fellow coach Gunther Bresnik early this year.
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The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament features an incredible draw, especially by 500-point standards. Dominic Thiem, however, got a favorable one for his first-round contest.
Snagging one of the 32 seeds at a Grand Slam has its benefits. Most importantly, you cannot meet another seed until at least the third round. Garner a top 24 seed and you're guaranteed to avoid the likes of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal until no earlier than the last 16. A seed does not, however, entirely exempt you from danger.
Perhaps no part of the men's singles draw is more intriguing than the bottom quarter, where Roger Federer leads the way as the No. 2 seed. If the 17-time Grand Slam champion gets past Roberto Bautista Agut in the third round, he will next go up against either Grigor Dimitrov or Gael Monfils. Talk about an absolutely loaded section of the bracket!
The similarities are very real. In 2007, an 18-turning-19 Ernests Gulbis was playing in his first U.S. Open. In the third round, a day-session match against veteran Spaniard Tommy Robredo was pushed into the night. It was worth the wait for Gulbis, who destroyed the world No. 8 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 29 minutes.
Fans of Roger Federer with both day and night U.S. Open tickets on Sunday may think they are getting to see the 17-time Grand Slam championship twice. They will, in fact, see Federer once. But the second men's third-round match of the day will feature not Federer, but a man who has molded his playing style after that of the Swiss--Grigor Dimitrov.
In the first few games of this, it seemed as if Roger Federer was really struggling to deal with Samuel Groth's serve. True, Federer was having no trouble at all on his own (except for a bad moment in the third set when he was broken) -- but he didn't really seem like Roger Federer. Nonetheless, he keeps alive his faint hopes of rising to #2.
It was a day of firsts for Dominic Thiem; his first five-setter, his first comeback from two sets down, and his first trip to the third round of a Grand Slam. But it could have been so much better.
Ernests Gulbis and Dominic Thiem, who share coach Gunter Bresnik and are constant practice partners at almost every tournament on their schedules, will go head-to-head in the second round of the U.S. Open. They set up what will be the first installment at the main-draw level of this friendly rivalry by winning entirely routine openers on Wednesday.
We are into the final few weeks leading up to the U.S. Open and almost nobody has more momentum than Milos Raonic and David Goffin. Raonic followed up his Wimbledon semifinal showing with a title on Sunday in Washington, D.C. Goffin is on a streak of 20 consecutive match wins and he captured his first career ATP title on Saturday in Kitzbuhel.
One way or another, we were guaranteed a first-time winner here. Not only were both players in their first finals, neither had ever made a semifinal before. David Goffin had three ATP quarterfinals (Chennai 2012, Winston-Salem 2012, Valencia 2012); Dominic Thiem had two (Kitzbuhel and Vienna 2013).
Twenty matches since Wimbledon. Twenty wins for David Goffin. The first 15 of those 20 earned him three consecutive Challenger titles, but the most recent five this week were the ones that mattered most.
Maybe we should have taken the idea of Donald Young as the American #2 more seriously. Kevin Anderson will remain below the Top Twenty, but Young moves past Sam Querrey, Jack Sock, and Steve Johnson; he is on the brink of the Top Fifty.
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