“In the end, the whole game wasn’t good enough and he deserved to win it,” admitted Thiem, who won his first ATP title here in Austria three years ago. “I won a lot of games in Baastad, Gstaad and also this week, many went my way, now it’s the first one I’ve lost,” said the 2020 US Open winner , it hurts a lot, especially because it’s in front of a home crowd.” But his game just wasn’t relaxed enough. And at some point it’s not enough anymore.