Dominic Thiem upsets Filip Horansky to make it to quarterfinal of Boys’ Singles – French Open 2011
Surprises kept striking at the Roland Garros, as the 14th seed Austrian, Dominic Thiem, outclassed the third seed Filip Horansky of Slovakia, in the third round of the tournament on Wednesday afternoon. The Austrian
took just 76 minutes to wrap up his straight sets victory at 6-4, 6-1, to book a berth in the final eight of the Grand Slam event.
The contest took off with both boys launching a series of attacking moves upon their opponents, trying to get the early advantage. After some intense tennis, Thiem finally clinched the opening set to get one up in the contest and
then carried on his winning momentum in the following set as well. The Austrian absolutely ravaged the third seed opponent in the second set and reeled off four straight games to seal an emphatic victory.
Horansky was well in control of the game at the start but gradually tend to lose his steam as the contest progressed. He coughed three double faults at very crucial moments of the contest to assist Thiem in his assertive victory.
The Slovak struck only one serve break in the entire contest, while he suffered four break points from his opponent to end on the losing side.
Despite of a pathetically low serve precision of just 37 per cent, Thiem reeled off 19 out of 20 first serve points in the game and faced just four break points, successfully defending three of them. The Austrian crafted 11 chances
to break his opponent’s serve in the game and converted five of them en to victory.
Both contestants exchanged some assertive winners at the beginning of the first set to get their impact on the game. Horansky was the first one to register a serve break in the opener, only to be broken in the very next game to
fall back on even terms with his Austrian opponent. Thiem fully capitalised on three double faults of the Slovak t sting his second serve break of the matchup to seal the opening set at 6-4 and got one up in the competition.
Thiem proved absolutely devastating in the following set, belting three straight serve breaks to the opponent and rocketing away to victory at 6-1. The surprising victory of the Austrian books him a date with the Spanish qualifier,
Oriol Roca Batalla, in the quarter-final of the French Open. The Spaniard was successful against the 10th seed Joao Pedro Sorgi of Brazil, in straight sets 6-1, 6-1, to make it to the last eight of the tournament.
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