US Open - Thiem is the men's champion

Austria’s Dominic Thiem won the men’s singles at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships as they defeated Germany’s Alexander Zverev 2: 6, 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3, 7: 6 (8-6) in Sunday’s final.

It was decided before the finale that - for the first time since 2014 - a 27-year-old Thiem or 23-year-old Zverev would inaugurate a new Grand Slam champion in New York. The Vienna-based player, who failed in the previous three GS finals, started extremely nervously, but his 198-centimeter opponent bravely went up to the net, served well and got into a set advantage in half an hour. Russian-born Zverev pulled in a 5-1 draw in the jump, and although Thiem broke back once, after 80 minutes there were already two games next to his name.

The Hamburg tennis player had a break advantage in the third act, but shuddered, and Thiem, who was gaining strength, came together to beautify and, in fact, remained in full swing and equalized after 2 hours 53 minutes. In the final set, Thiem lost his serve at 3: 4, but Zverev was unable to outsource the match at 5: 3. The Austrian didn't do it either at 6: 5, and then Thiem was better by a hair's breadth in the final short. The twisted and not very high quality finale lasted 4 hours 3 minutes.

In addition to his 17th tournament victory in his career, Thiem received $ 3 million (900 million forints)

(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti / Photo: pixabay)