“A very, very nice feeling that I haven’t had for a long time,” Thiem breathed a sigh of relief in the on-site interview. “It was difficult in general, I knew that I had to perform well. And I did that for the most part. But the most important thing was that I was able to get it across the finish line.” In the eighth tournament after returning from his tough wrist injury, the second at Challenger level, Thiem was finally able to celebrate again – in front of a full house in the Salzburg Volksgarten.
