Dominic Thiem tops Roger Federer for BNP Paribas Open title
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Mar 18, 2019
3 minutes
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - Two drop shots, two shots among the hundreds that Roger Federer hit during his stroll to the finals of the BNP Paribas Open, made the difference between the Swiss master capturing a record sixth championship here and Austria's Dominic Thiem instead clutching the victor's trophy and joking he was now merely 88 titles behind Federer on the career wins list. "It's unreal," Thiem marveled after his 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 triumph at Indian Wells Tennis Garden, the 12th title of his career.
It certainly was unexpected, this breaching of
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