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DOUBLES: Thiem/Serena
Dominic Thiem offers to play doubles with Serena Williams Austrian world number four Dominic Thiem has offered to play doubles with Serena Williams at Wimbledon to put their French Open dispute behind them. Thiem had accused Williams of showing "bad personality" after he was asked to relocate a media conference to make way for the 23-time Grand Slam champion. "Probably it was not Serena's mistake. I find her achievements unbelievable, sensational." he said on Tuesday. "I would like to make amends with her in Wimbledon or US Open mixed doubles." Thiem, beaten in the men's French Open final by Rafael Nadal, now believes tournament organisers were to blame for the incident that saw him shunted out of the interview room where he had begun answering questions following his fourth-round win over Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas. Thiem accuses Serena Williams of showing 'bad personality' "In retrospect, it was funny that such an organisational mistake happened at a Grand Slam tournament," he added. "What I do not understand is that it blew up so much." Williams won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1998 as a 16-year-old playing alongside Belarus' Max Mirnyi, and teamed up with fellow American Francis Tiafoe in the Hopman Cup in January. Thiem lost to Nadal in the French Open final for a second successive year last weekend and says he is confident on improving on previous displays at Wimbledon where he has only got beyond the second round once in five visits. "Wimbledon is special, it is the most prestigious tournament in the world," he added. "I want to show myself better than last year. At that time I was slightly injured and had to give up in the first round [retiring against Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis]. Now I see good chances to get relatively far." Thiem will begin his grass-court preparations at the Halle tournament in Germany before Wimbledon starts on 1 July. Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaI don't think Serena has time for useless Doubles. She is trying to save her energy for the Singles. Stupid PR from Thiem.
Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaObviously trying to save face.
Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaWait, shouldn't you be offering to play doubles with Ree too, if memory serves? Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaAny Doubles at this point in a 23 GS career is meaningless when she is trying to add #24 Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaANY match play is needed when you're trying for #24 and have obviously become a part-time player at best.
Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaShe should play and 'accidentally' bean him in the head on a first flat serve.Oops, did that hurt? It sure looked like it did. lol. The scales of justice would then be in balance. Last edited by Grossefavourite on Jun Thu 13, 2019 8:11 am, edited 1 time in total. Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaA simple apology for getting it wrong and blowing it up would suffice ~ No doubles on that bad knee!! On another note … Sascha plays Dustin Brown on the grass today ~ Should be interesting!! Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaDustin took the first set 6-4, but Sascha broke to open the second set 2-0!! Re: DOUBLES: Thiem/SerenaDustin breaks and is now serving for the match at 5-3 in the third!! ... |