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Finally, on the finish, Dominic Thiem (see photo) won the Kitzbühel tennis tournament as the second Austrian after Thomas Muster (1993). The 25-year-old world player, fourth in the world, was beaten in the final after an hour and a quarter to 3 hours ahead of Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas with 7: 6 (7/0) and 6: 1. Especially the first set was disputed and also interrupted for more than one hour because of the rain. But after the break and the clear win in the decisive game (7: 0), the way for Lower Austria to its 14th tournament victory was free. "It's absolutely amazing, one of my biggest dreams has come true, I'm delighted," Thiem said in an interview with Barbara Schett. It was the 22nd final of the ATP tour for the Austrian and already the third title this year after Indian Wells and Barcelona. For the win in the final, the 25-year-old athlete earned 90,000 euros and 250 points for the world ranking. "Winning a home tournament is one of the reasons I started playing tennis." I was here at the age of six and twenty years later, I'm "I won the tournament." It may also be fate, "Dominic said after the match in his thank you speech. Thiem won the long-awaited Golden Gams trophy. In addition, the double finalist of the French Open has won just over four million dollars in prizes this year alone. His next appearance? At the Masters 1000 tournament in Montreal.
Austrian victory also doubles
Dominic Thiem's "preliminaries" were also impressive. As for Philipp Oswald, an Austrian – for the first time since Julian Knowle 2012 – won the double final of the Open Generali. Czech-born Vorarlberger, 33, defeated Belgian Sander Gille / Joran Vliegen with 69-year-old partner Vorarlberger of Slovakia 6: 4. For Oswald, it was his tenth double win. ATP, for Polasek, it was the twelfth. "In principle" it was the most beautiful tennis day of his life, said "Ossi" Oswald. "I thought the Davis Cup in Moscow was really cool, it was just as emotional for the whole team, but in front of my audience, it was the best backdrop to win," said Vorarlberger, 33 years old. A week earlier, the four protagonists had clashed in the Gstaad final. At that time, the Belgians won 6: 4 6: 3, in the Tyrol Oswald / Polasek won the revenge after 4: 3 in the first and 5: 4 in the second set. For Oswald, it was the third final game in a row, because he had already decided two weeks ago on the side of the Dutch Robin Haase to dispute the tournament in Umag.
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