It wasn’t easy but fleet of foot, caressed groundstroke winners at close quarters and match sharpness proved to be the difference for Dominic Thiem on Thursday when he negotiated a tough test against Marin Cilic at the Coupe Rogers. Thiem stared down all nine break points he faced — four at 3-3 in the first…
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Sport Austria’s Dominic Thiem has extended an olive branch to Serena Williams after their media room misunderstanding at the French Open by offering to partner the American in mixed doubles at Wimbledon or the U.S. Open. FILE PHOTO: Tennis – French Open – Roland Garros, Paris, France – June 9, 2019. Austria’s Dominic Thiem reacts…
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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. DOMINIC THIEM has jokingly asked Serena Williams to play mixed doubles with him at Wimbledon following their fall-out at the French Open.PUBLISHED: 00:21, Wed, Jun 12, 2019 | UPDATED: 00:54, Wed, Jun 12, 2019 Thiem was ejected from the main interview room at Roland Garros after his…
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Austrian tennis ace Dominic Thiem on Tuesday offered Serena Williams a mixed doubles jaunt in an attempt to put their French Open press room dispute behind them. Thiem reacted with disbelief when officials asked him, mid-post match interview, to leave the main interview room at Roland Garros so that the American superstar, who had just…
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Austrian tennis ace Dominic Thiem on Tuesday offered Serena Williams a mixed doubles jaunt in an attempt to put their French Open press room dispute behind them. Thiem reacted with disbelief when officials asked him, mid-post match interview, to leave the main interview room at Roland Garros so that the American superstar, who had just…
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Thiem was unable to prevent Rafael Nadal landing a 12th French Open title in the men’s final last weekendAustrian world number four Dominic Thiem has offered to play doubles with Serena Williams at Wimbledon to put their French Open dispute behind them.Thiem had accused Williams of showing “bad personality” after he was asked to relocate…
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ATP Tour 2019-06-11 17:59 Dominic Thiem (Getty) Thiem reacted with disbelief when officials asked him, mid-post match interview, to leave the main interview room at Roland Garros so that the American superstar, who had just been knocked out, would not be kept waiting.He accused the 23-time Grand Slam winner, who had just suffered her earliest…
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Winner Spain’s Rafael Nadal (R) and second-placed Austria’s Dominic Thiem (L) pose with their trophies at the end of the men’s singles final match against Austria’s Dominic Thiem on day fifteen of The Roland Garros 2019 French Open tennis tournament in Paris on June 9, 2019. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP) Dominic Thiem said…
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Dominic Thiem: On course to defeat Novak Djokovic Austrian Dominic Thiem sent an emphatic warning down to the old guns, such as defending champions Rafa Nadal that the newbreed of tennis players have truly arrived after he led World number one Novak Djokovic 4-1 in the decisive fifth set at Roland-Garros on Saturday. Play was…
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File copy: Dominic Thiem of Austria celebrates after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in the men’s singles final on day fourteen of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Photo: AFP Novak Djokovic’s dream of becoming just the second man in history to hold all Grand Slam titles at the same time…
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Dominic Thiem: downs Novak Djokovic in French Open Austrian Dominic Thiem has powered to his second successive French Open final, beating world number one, Novak Djokovic in a 4 hour, 20 minutes enervating five set thriller, 6-2 3-6 7-5 5-7 7-5, delayed by rain twice. Eventually the rain could not help Djokovic overcome the 25…
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In a press conference Dominic Thiem commented on the different matches against Novak Djokovic, who he will face in the semifinals and Rafael Nadal in an eventual championship clash. “Both of them are very different players”, said Thiem.”I have a little bit more issues with guys who play a little bit flatter and who take…
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Novak Djokovic reached his ninth Roland Garros semi-final on Thursday, sweeping past Alexander Zverev to keep his bid to become just the second man to hold all four Slams at the same time twice firmly on track. Top seed and world number one Djokovic won 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 and will face Austrian fourth seed Dominic…
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Cape Town – Tennis legends Boris Becker and Pat Cash have come out in support of Dominic Thiem in his row with Serena Williams, as the press conference controversy rumbles on.After her defeat to Sofia Kenin on Saturday, Williams forced Thiem to end his press conference prematurely, insisting she wanted to take his seat in…
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Paris – Last year’s runner-up Dominic Thiem said he was “prepared” to face some underarm serves from entertaining Kazakh Alexander Bublik as he reached the third round at Roland Garros for the fourth straight year on Thursday.The Austrian fourth seed was facing a fifth set when trailing 5-2 in the fourth, but reeled off five…
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