Thiem criticizes ATP calendar: 'We play on hard for more than half a year'
Dominic Thiem is ready to start his run in the Hamburg German Open. The Austrian player believes he needs to play matches as he lost in the Wimbledon opening round to Sam Querrey and had skipped Halle too. "I played only one match over the last six weeks and I am really happy to re-start, I think it will be more in the next few weeks", said Thiem on Sunday.
Against Pablo Cuevas, Thiem leads the head to head meetings 4-2, Thiem prevailed in their last meeting in this year's French Open. "It was not a bad match in Paris, it was four sets relatively close, he is a good clay-courter. Three top ten players are not granted in an ATP 500. Why am I here? I was planning to go for a holiday for three or four days, so I looked at the whole situation, the city fits a lot to me, this is one of the few I saw as a tourist a little bit."
Thiem believes more clay-court tennis should be played: "We play on hard from Canada to at least February, most of the players return on clay in April, it's more than half a year on hard, I think it's not the best for the body."
from Tennis World USA https://ift.tt/2Sz7zi3
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