Advantage Thiem again?

After their meeting in Austria on earth a few weeks ago, we find the same poster but in very different conditions..

The two have not played since Kitzbuhel, Thiem was carried all week by a public in fusion and had climbed into the final largely thanks to that. In the game it's really hard to get carried away, obviously it was a good tournament in terms of results but the level of play was not crazy once again. The return on hard court will be interesting, we know he liked the front surface to show his power but he remains on 7 defeats in a row on hard court. Less time for his preparations, he has great gestures and like his placement on earth on the return he needs to have time to send his big strikes. Faced with a player like Rinderknech it could well be a game-changer on hard, the Frenchman is able to attack early in the exchange and knows how to follow the net, that's what it will take to come and move Thiem. The Frenchman is coming out of a victory in a challenge then a good tournament in Austria, he is back in conditions that he knows perfectly (he was a university student in the US for several years) and knows what he must do..