Playing on the power-packed side of the draw that includes former U. Open champions Roger Federer and world number one Rafa Nadal, Thiem has stayed out of the spotlight . “We know that all hell breaks loose when you lose a game, and then all the critics come out,” U. At 30, Mischa Zverev has enjoyed a superb year, putting the gloss on a stunning rise up the rankings, from outside the top 1000 in 2015 to the verge of a place in the top 20. Sharing the group lead with Ireland before the game, Serbia went top outright after victory in Belgrade while its rival was held to a 1-1 draw at Georgia. “We were briefing him this morning before FP3, asking him if he wanted extra practice in the w. ”Now Nadal meets 64th-ranked Alexandr Dolgopolov, a 28-year-old from Ukraine who is being aske. That was the first time in the 36-year-old Federer’s career that he opened a Grand Slam tournament with two consecutive matches that lasted five sets. ncia when he was in the academy and he’d train with the big players,” Villa said. Schumacher, the seven-times world champion and former Ferrari great whose tally Hamilton had equalled in Belgium last weekend, ended his career with 68 from 307 races.