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SportingLife: Making their chances count to be there on final weekend of Australian Open
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Dominic Thiem, unshaven, unmoved, blows into his right palm. He hits so hard perhaps it gets over-heated. Then the Austrian half-squats and quivers behind the baseline. He's wondering where Alexander Zverev, 1.98m plus hair, is going to serve and he's searching for what every athlete does.
A chance. To break serve, to get ahead, to dominate, to win.
