"My self-confidence wasn't that high": Dominic Thiem looks to build after crisis of confidence with recent results
ATPThursday, 19 October 2023 at 08:30
Austria’s tennis star Dominic
Thiem has revealed the reasons why winning the first round of the European Open
was not an easy task.
The 30-year-old defeated Italy’s Luca
Nardi in the round of 32 clash of the competition with a score of 3-6, 7-6, 6-2
on Tuesday.
Talking about it after the match, Thiem
stated why it was not an easy outing, citing how he was struggling with a lack
of confidence.
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“The last weeks weren’t so easy,”
he said. “I didn’t have great results. My self-confidence isn’t that high.
That’s why it’s even more difficult against all those great players in those
events. It wasn’t an easy first-round, but I was fighting through. Trying to
build on that for the second-round.”
Thiem is coming in this tournament
on the back of a disappointing outing in the Bratislava Open where he was
knocked out of the competition after losing the round of 16 tie to Canada’s Gabriel
Diallo with a score of 6-1, 4-6, 7-6.
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The former world number three is
now set to face off against Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann in the round of 16 tie on Wednesday.
This will be only the second time
when these two players will face off on the tennis court. In the previous
meeting, it was Hanfmann who came out on top in the quarterfinal of the Generali
Open with a score of 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in 2022.
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