Top seed Dominic Thiem conquered a one-set shortage to vanquish third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the men's final of the 2019 China Open here on Sunday.
Thiem required two hours and 13 minutes to seal the full-sets 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 triumph.
Thiem and Tsitsipas went into the match with the Austrian driving 3-2 in their no hold barred. Thiem had won everything except one of his matches here in Beijing in straight sets, while Tsitsipas had required deciders in two of his, including when he took out Shielding champion Nikoloz Basilashvilli.
The first set was a closer challenge than the scoreline may propose. Neither one of the players had an incredibly high number of mistakes, implying that the slightest slip-ups wound up being enhanced, and this expense Thiem at a few key moments.
Tsitsipas was broken to adore on his first assistance game out of the entryway, however, he would react with a break of his own to make everything fair.
In spite of the fact that he would proceed to serve out the rest of the opener, there were a couple of minutes from the get-go in when Tsitsipas appeared to get into his very own head. What seemed to be an excellent strike from missed its imprint when he was serving at 2-all, making him toss his racket on the court in disappointment.
In any case, this demonstrated to be a momentary blip. Tsitsipas would log an impressive performance on serve, firing off four aces and only facing breakpoint once after the initial opening trade, when serving for the set at 6-3.
Tsitsipas was uncommon on return in the first set also, getting 91 percent of his shots in play while in transit to pounding out the opener in 43 minutes.
Things got rockier for the Greek in the second set, a long-distance race which took about an hour to choose. Despite the fact that he was the first to break, Thiem would quickly react with one of his own to draw level.
Tsitsipas then began getting an issue out of his forehand specifically raking up eight of 11 unforced mistakes in the second set on this side. He would be brought to breakpoint on each and every one of his residual assistance games in the second, and in spite of bringing Thiem to breakpoint multiple times as he served for the set, demonstrated unfit to prevent the top seed from compelling a decider.
Things went from terrible to more awful for Tsitsipas in the third. He submitted nine unforced mistakes as Thiem raged to a 5-0 lead (this time a large portion of them fell off the strike). A held serve to go 5-1 and maintain a strategic distance from a bagel demonstrated to be only a comfort. Thiem proceeded to serve out the set and could never face a split point in fixing up the decider in only 36 minutes.
Thiem brings home US $733,990 in prize cash and 500 ATP points with the success, while Tsitsipas will take 300 ATP points and the US $364,615.
