The sad goodbye of Thiem, “a good guy” who challenged the ‘Big Three’ until his battered wrist left him

<a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/who-will-be-the-tennis-players-who-will-open-the-cordoba-open-2022-tennis/” title=”Who will be the tennis players who will open the Córdoba Open 2022 – Tennis”>Dominic Thiem has decided to end his sporting career. At 31 years old, The Austrian has been forced to hang up his racket due to his recurring physical problems, the same ones that prevented him from reaching the ceiling he had set. He was a great player who came to compete for the throne of Big Threebut could have been the fourth in contention if it weren’t for a damn doll which left him out of the game for too many months and without being able to recover his high level.

After several years off, with regular relapses and problems that kept him away from the slopes for several weeks, Thiem has considered that the time has come to say goodbye to high-level sport despite his youth. So many efforts and sacrifices to compete have not served to have continuity on the slopes and, therefore, the Austrian has decided that the time has come to retire. A premature goodbye of a tennis player who could mark an era.

In an interview with the ATP, Thiem opens up about his career, where he seems happy with what he has achieved and, at the same time, with a certain sadness for not having been able to fight for greater successes. “When I think about my career, what I feel most It is gratitude for everything I have been able to experience. It was a privilege to meet andl Big ThreeI had truly legendary matches against the best players of our timeperhaps the best players in history,” he explains.

While Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic y Roger Federer coincided on the court, only eight players were able to steal from them a Grand Slam. Or, what is the same, the domain of Big Three it was total for 19 years. And Dominic Thiem has the honor of having been one of those who achieved it, after winning the 2020 US Open, in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic and with the stands completely empty: “It is a bit of a mirror of my career,” points out about it.

Thiem began to show his credentials in the middle of the last decade. After climbing positions, he entered for the first time in his career in the top ten back in June 2016. It showed that its growth was unstoppable: after lose three Grand Slam finals -Roland Garros 2018 and 2019, in addition to the 2020 Australian Open-, his great opportunity would come at the 2020 US Open, when he was finally crowned champion. I won a grande and was placed number three in the world.

He had found maturity in his game and, then, an unexpected injury came. It was at the Mallorca Open, in a match against Adrian Mannarinowhen he felt a discomfort in your right wrist which led him to withdraw from the match. What Thiem couldn’t even imagine is that That ailment was going to keep him out of playing for almost two years.. And that, in fact, was going to end up being the beginning of the end of his professional activity. Relapses and pain led him to leave tennis at only 31 years old.

“After winning the US Open, I recovered a good mental state, but the injury came. From then on, the sensations, especially on the right, were never the same again. Therefore, it was also difficult for me mentally, because it was very difficult to accept. Those two things, mentally and physically, always go together. I think the basic reason why I am here now retiring quite young is still bad luck with the wrist injury“confirmed Thiem.

That tennis player who was able to challenge the Big Three and who went on to win a Grand Slam against them, has been forced to retire too young due to that wrist injury from which he never recovered. “My legacy is that many people say that I was a good guy on the circuit, I was a very humble boy“says Thiem, the player who could have made tennis history, but who An unexpected wrist injury crippled him for life..

Dominic Thiem has decided to end his sporting career. At 31 years old, The Austrian has been forced to hang up his racket due to his recurring physical problems, the same ones that prevented him from reaching the ceiling he had set. He was a great player who came to compete for the throne of Big Threebut could have been the fourth in contention if it weren’t for a damn doll which left him out of the game for too many months and without being able to recover his high level.