{"id":412624,"date":"2023-02-15T02:01:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412624"},"modified":"2023-02-15T02:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:01:18","slug":"thiem-defeats-molcan-for-first-win-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/thiem-defeats-molcan-for-first-win-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiem defeats Molcan for first win in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world number 3 Dominic Thiem got off the mark for the 2023 ATP Tour season with a quality win on Tuesday night at the Argentina Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Dominic Thiem sobre polvo de ladrillo \ud83e\udde1<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GEf1xM6gjQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GEf1xM6gjQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Set Tenis (@settenisok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/settenisok\/status\/1625688031075131395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Austrian defeated seventh seed Alex Molcan 7-6(4), 6-3 in Buenos Aires, breaking through in his fifth match of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a good match,&#8221; said Thiem, who won the Buenos Aires title in 2016 and 2018. &#8220;I like it a lot here in Buenos Aires. Already the last days in practice I was feeling well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won my first match of the season against a very good opponent. I stayed focused throughout the whole match, as well in the difficult moments. So I&#8217;m happy and I&#8217;m trying to focus fully on the second round now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thiem, who did not face a break point in set two as he improved to 12-1 in Buenos Aires with the victory, and Molcan traded breaks from 5-5 in the opening set. The Austrian raced to a 5\/1 lead in the tie-break after failing to serve out the set.<\/p>\n<p>Thiem will play Peruvian qualifier Juan Pablo Varillas in the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world number 3 Dominic Thiem got off the mark for the 2023 ATP Tour season with a quality win on Tuesday night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412625,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17508],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Austrian will play Peruvian qualifier Juan Pablo Varillas in the next round","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412624"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412624"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}