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steven


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Oli plays someone he'll be quite familiar with from juniors:

L32: Oli Golding WR 469 v (6) Dominic Thiem (AUT) WR 304

Junior H2H 2-1 - Oli beat Thiem 6 & 6 at Roehampton juniors in 2010 before getting thrashed 2 & 1 in the Eddie Herr Final later that year, then beat him 3 & 5 in Canada in 2011.

Thiem is actually on a 10-match winning streak in Futures (12 if you ignore a walkover he gave) but has only played one match so far this year (a Heilbronn Challenger R1 loss to Mertl) to Oli's two.

So you could say ... 'crocks away!' wink (igmc!)

Possible not a great draw though, especially on clay.



-- Edited by steven on Monday 18th of March 2013 05:35:27 PM

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Yes but Thiem hasn't actually played for 2 months due to injury as well - his form was last year.

Well. 1 break back. Good on you Oli



-- Edited by korriban on Tuesday 19th of March 2013 01:09:38 PM

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Oli about to start for anyone who's interested

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Oli holds after 6 deuces, though he only faced one break point. 1-0*

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steven wrote:

Oli holds after 6 deuces, though he only faced one break point. 1-0*

 3 BPs. The curse of ITF livescores.



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The bookies simply cannot call this one, 1*-1, odds are 5/6 a piece

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I watched Dominic Thiem play an exhibition match against Thomas Muster when he was a kid.

Serious, serious talent.......even though they were direct rivals as juniors with similar rankings and success, based on their early professional careers to date (forgetting 2013 - a write-off for both) I would back Dominic 90-10, but would prefer to be wrong.



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59 points played in the first 6 games (!)

(and I'm pretty sure this one's right - I refreshed the ITF live scores page to avoid getting conned again LOL)

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Oli 5-2 down first set now

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Sadly, Thiem only dropped 1 point in the following 2 games, breaking and holding to take the 1st set 6-2

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A love break from Thiem, who has now won 12 of the last 13 points (subject to ITF livescore inaccuracies ...)

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Hmm. From 2-3* to 2-6 0-3*. 6 games lost including a run of 15 points in a row.

Wouldn't want to be an Oli tennis racquet right now.

Please don't give up! Please don't start DFing out of annoynace. If you hang in, anything is possible.



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No suprises in form guy against player coming back from injury. It will take time before Oli is back to the form of last year. Don't panic, but given it 3 or 4 weeks.

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Looks like Oli lost.

L32: Oli Golding WR 469 lost to (6) Dominic Thiem (AUT) WR 304 : 2-6 2-6

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Result was to be expected in the circumstances although I had hoped for a closer scoreline.

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