Dominic Thiem, an Austrian tennis player, the third-ranked on the ATP list, won the regional humanitarian tournament Adria Tour held in Belgrade over the last weekend with the United Group (UG) as its golden sponsor and the world number one Novak Djokovic as the organiser, N1 reported on Monday.

Thiem beat Serbia’s player Filip Krajinovic 2-1.

The UG, with its members SBB cable operator and Sport Klub, sponsored the humanitarian tournament which would continue in the Croatian coastal town of Zadar next weekend and then would go to Bosnia’ Banja Luka and Sarajevo.

That has been the largest tennis event since the pause in competition due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the income is meant for different humanitarian organisations including ‘Novak Djokovic Foundation.’

The tour included Montenegro, but Podgorica still doesn’t allow people into the country coming from Serbia due to many coronavirus cases in Serbia.

Besides Djokovic, Krajinovic and Thiem, the participants of the two-day tournament in Belgrade included a German player Sasa Zverev, Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Serbia’s Viktor Troicki and Dusan Lajovic as well as a Bosnia’s best player Damir Dzumhur.

Best Croatia’s players Borna Coric and Marin Cilic will take part in Zadar, while in Sarajevo, the plan includes a match between Djokovic and Dzumhur providing he recovers from an injury which forced him to withdraw from the Belgrade tournament.