“I took him as an example, because he has won so many important tiebreaks in his career. I have the feeling that when he's going into the tiebreaker, he just refuses to miss. That's what I tried to do as well."

As Dominic Thiem found his way to victory over Novak Djokovic, the student became the teacher...at least for today.

“He deserved it... he just went for it and everything worked,” Djokovic said in London.