The event, which is unusually highly endowed for this category at $ 1.019 million and in which Novak Djokovic is top seeded, received a license from the ATP for this year after the cancellation of this year’s China tournament series. Thiem may compete with a wildcard.
Against the 27-year-old Serb Djere Thiem played once before, when he lost 3:6,3:6 in the first round on clay in Rio de Janeiro in 2019. Should Thiem against the world ranking 67th, who lost in Metz in the first qualifying round against Stan Wawrinka, it will be for Thiem difficult. Then Marin Cilic, who was already in the round of 16 after a bye, would wait.
The recovered Cilic was already in the French Open semi-finals this year and most recently failed at the US Open in the round of 16 at the eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz. The 33-year-old Croatian recently climbed to 16th place in the ATP ranking.
The match in the live ticker:
Source: Nachrichten
