Dominic Thiem won the China Open beating Stefanos Tsitsipas 3-6, 6-4 and 6-1.  After a slow start, Thiem got going and Tsitsipas didn’t have many answers.

He beat Karen Khachanov in the semifinals in 3 sets and Andy Murray in the quarter finals. Thiem has now qualified for the Nitto ATP finals.

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It’s a good win for Thiem who has been bothered by a viral illness most of the summer.  Yesterday’s win was his top-10 win since June when he beat Novak Djokovic at the French Open.

With this win, Thiem joins Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic with tour-leading 4 titles this season.

Andy Murray also had a good week despite his loss to Thiem in the quarter finals.  In fact, this was his best week in singles since under going a hip replacement surgery.  If his form continues, 2020 looks good for Murray – that’s something we couldn’t have said at the Australian Open.

Naomi Osaka is back!  With back to back titles at the Japan Open and China Open, Osaka has put the nightmare send half of the season behind her, and she looks like the player she was at the beginning of the year.

In Beijing, Osaka scored an impressive win over Bianca Andreescu in 3 hard-fought sets.  Andreescu had hardly lost a match when fully fit since March.  Osaka then beat Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals and Ashleigh Barty in the finals.

Since her Australian Open win, she switched coaches and has a string of poor results. But now all that seems in the past and Osaka appears confident and is playing the brand of tennis that won the US Open last and the Australian Open this year.