Dominic Thiem vs Alexander Zverev Tennis Prediction

Dominic Thiem won four of their previous five meetings, but all those five meetings went to the distance. The Austrian also won their only previous meeting in the final of a tour event, at ATP Nice in 2016.
Any player who knocks out Rafael Nadal deserves to go all the way in that tournament. Moreover, Thiem failed in the finals here in 2017, and he is the one that deserves this title more than Alexander Zverev.

Dominic Thiem News

Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev were forming a rivalry in 2016 as they met four times in the space seven months but this will only be their second meeting in the last 18 months.
Zverev secured his fourth straight-set win of the week by defeating Denis Shapovalov 6-4 6-1 in the semifinal. The first set of his recent three matches have finished at 6-4, against Leonardo Mayer, John Isner, and Denis Shapovalov.
The win against the Canadian teenager extends Zverev’s winning run to eight with seven of those wins coming in straight sets. This impressive run helped him retain his Munich title last week.

Alexander Zverev News

This will be the German’s fourth finals appearance in an ATP Masters 1000 event. Though he lost the recent one to John Isner in Miami, he won the other two against Roger Federer in Montreal 2017 and Novak Djokovic in Rome 2017.
Zverev, who trails the H2H 1-4 against Dominic Thiem, believes he is an improved player now and fancies his chances on Sunday, “We played five times against each other when he was already Top 10, and I was more in the developing stage still. Obviously, he’s leading the head-to-head.”
Unlike Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem has never won a Masters title in his career, and the closest he ever went to winning a title at this level was here at Madrid in 2017, when he was beaten in straight sets by Rafael Nadal.
It’s no secret that Thiem wants to get his hands on a Masters 1000 trophy, “A Masters 1000 title would mean a lot to me because it’s obviously really tough to win one.”
While Zverev has been utterly dominant in all his four matches this week, Dominic Thiem barely managed to survive his opening two matches against Federico Delbonis and Borna Coric but scored two impressive and confident boosting wins against Rafael Nadal and Kevin Anderson in the quarterfinal and semifinal, respectively.

Tennis Prediction: Dominic Thiem
Odds: 1.88