The Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem2020 US Open winner, announced this Friday that he will retire from professional sports due, among other reasons, to his wrist injury.
“I have a very important announcement, sad, but also wonderful. The 2024 season will be my last. I will end my career at the end of the season“, announced the 30-year-old tennis player on his social networks.
Thiem assured that he had been thinking for a long time about a decision he now describes as “correct.”
Austrian media speculated that the tennis player, who became number three in the world, He will retire after the Vienna Tournament (Erste Bank Open) which takes place next October.
Thiem announced that he will provide more details about his future this weekend.
Thiem, currently ranked 117th in the ATP, has set his sights on getting back into the top 50. from the world, something that was held back by a series of bad results and problems with his right wrist.
Among his achievements in the last twelve months was just reaching the final of the Kitzbühel tournament in July.
“If I finish the year again around 100th in the ranking“I really have to consider whether it’s worth continuing,” Thiem declared in January.
At the end of March, Thiem reveals his right wristwhere he suffered an injury in 2021 in Mallorca, It hasn’t finished healing yet, it’s causing him pain again.
In addition, he noted that his performance in tournaments, even at the Challenger level, was not good enough and he struggled to add victories on a sustained basis.
Source: La Verdad
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