Match recap · Played Oct 26, 2026

Tien beats van Assche in Vienna

Tien vs van Assche — 1-1 across 2 meetings in this archive

Learner Tien won his first-round match in Vienna against van Assche, 6-3, 6-1, and his serve was never broken.

It was level at 3-3 in the first set before a single break took it his way. The second set is the part to tell. The two longest games of the match came in its first four, and both went to him. Van Assche served first, and that game ran 16 points before Tien broke. Then at 2-1, on his own serve, came the other one: 14 points, with break points against him, and he kept it for 3-1.

The games got short after that. The last three took 16 points between them, as many as that opening game alone, and the last of them was another break to end the match.

Five times in the match, van Assche was one point from breaking him, and five times Tien won that point.

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