“Please wait,” Dominic Thiem said in Kitzbühel. The Austrian was abruptly stopped on his farewell lap on Monday and remained in the chamois city for at least a day.
The doubles match alongside Daniel Altmaier (GER) against Alexander Erler and Andreas Mies (GER) was stopped due to rain at 7:6(5), 3:5 and was eventually postponed. The match is not scheduled to continue until Wednesday.
Until the rain stopped, the crowd watched an entertaining match, the first set ending in a tiebreak without a single drop of serve. There Thiem/Altmaier got a short break to make it 3:1, and Erler/Meis took the lead and led to 5:4. Two points on their own serve and one on Erler/Meis's serve finally gave Thiem/Altmaier the set.
However, at the start of the second set, both were immediately given a break and chased the lead until the break. Thiem will return to the courts on Tuesday, then in the singles. There, the former US Open winner will meet Argentina's Thiago Agustin Tirante in the night session (7:30 p.m. in the live stream >>>).
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