Narration: This is how we have told the final
Dominic Thiem joked these days that he still had to talk to Andy Murray to see what it was like to lose your first four Grand Slam finals.
The Austrian is
another victim of the tyranny of the Big Three.
He reached two Roland Garros finals, but met Nadal, the best in history on clay.
And he reached one of the Australian Open, but Djokovic, winner of eight editions, was waiting for him.
Luckily for him, in the US Open final,
Alexander Zverev was
waiting
, a
brilliant promise but still tender at this point.
Thiem beat
(2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 and 7-6 (6))
and tennis finally has its first Grand Slam champion born in the nineties.
Zverev started out as a locomotive.
Whether it was the inertia of Friday's comeback, the first time in his career that he lifted two sets against, the work with David Ferrer, his coach since this summer, or the reinforcement of seeing that things went flying.
The first sign was the
service, indisputable.
But the other, the final one, was the right.
Zverev has a superb backhand, but his forehand is no match for a player who has been number three in the world.
In the beginning against Thiem, even with her he dominated.
By contrast, the Austrian was timid.
The serves did not enter.
The right was not running.
The legs, either.
He hit them with his racket, as if trying to wake them up.
They made a feint in the second set, and appeared in the third.
Like his forehand, like the one-handed backhand, the complete pack that has made him number three in the world.
He went up, pressured the German, who was breaking down.
Until Zverev gave up the third
with three service errors: two balls to the net and one wide.
It was difficult for Zverev to rebuild himself, already lost the spirit of the start, the Austrian awake.
Boy did it cost him.
It cost him the tournament.
By the time he came to, he already had Thiem in front of him who had reached the final by rolling, leaving only one set on the way.
None against Medvedev, a finalist against Nadal a year ago.
He forced the fifth set, which began exchanging breaks and screams of rage.
Discharging tension.
It was the keynote of a decisive set in which, yes, the two coincided at the same height.
And what a set.
The first time in the Open Era that the Flushing Meadows tournament was defined in a fifth-heat tie-break.
If he was missing epic, Dominic Thiem threw a whole car, who played sudden death lame, cramped, barely moving, but with his head and wrist at full capacity.
Thiem won, who lifted two sets against,
who signed a brilliant break when Zverev served to win the tournament and who will not have to call Andy Murray.
Tennis already has its Grand Slam champion born in the nineties.
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