{"id":54920,"date":"2023-02-15T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=54920"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:09:42","slug":"dominic-thiem-alex-molcan-argentina-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/02\/15\/dominic-thiem-alex-molcan-argentina-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Thiem Overcomes Alex Molcan at the Argentina Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Thiem of Austria beat seventh seed Alex Molcan of Slovakia 7-6 6-3 in a first round match at the Argentina Open in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. The match lasted for a little more than two hours as the 29-year-old Thiem managed to emerge victorious in the end.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/us-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/09\/13\/dominic-thiem-comes-back-win-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">champion<\/a>, who struggled with his slow recovery from injury last season, should savor the victory over the seeded Slovak. On that note, we will take a look at how the match progressed.<\/p>\n<h2>How Dominic Thiem Defeated Alex Molcan<\/h2>\n<h4><strong>#1. Thiem moved quite well in the match from the very beginning:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Dominic Thiem moved very well in the match, even as Molcan tried to test the former\u2019s court-coverage by making him move from side to side. However, Thiem often had just about enough time to get to the ball on a clay court.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the first set went to a tie-break and the Austrian managed to win it in the end as Molcan hit a return long on set point. Thiem thus drew the first blood in a match was a close fight until that point.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"QNmPxJXCQO5fvP3UBhsTqw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1247146519\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'QNmPxJXCQO5fvP3UBhsTqw',sig:'W8wZJrt8p7CsjZMqbWiVK48pClHXNcYZPcPS6bKbaFA=',w:'594px',h:'422px',items:'1247146519',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>#2. Thiem easily won the second set by hitting the ball well:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The second set also saw some impressive ballstriking by the Austrian, as the Slovak struggled to hold his own in the baseline exchanges. He tried playing a few drop shots to drag Thiem into the net, but Thiem again showed exceptional movement to retrieve the ball, like in the eighth game of the set to go 40-0 up on Molcan\u2019s serve.<\/p>\n<p>Thiem then went on to break the Slovak in the same game and served out the match subsequently. Thiem won 72% of the points against Molcan\u2019s 69%, which was a minor difference, but proved to be too much in the end.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Thiem of Austria beat seventh seed Alex Molcan of Slovakia 7-6 6-3 in a first round match at the Argentina Open in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. The match lasted for a little more than two hours as the 29-year-old Thiem managed to emerge victorious in the end. The former US Open champion, who struggled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":28899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13458,4653,208],"class_list":["post-54920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","tag-alex-molcan","tag-argentina-open","tag-dominic-thiem"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}