Last Friday Dominic Thiem announced that he will retire from tennis at the end of the season. The Austrian tennis player decided to hang in the towel after a long and difficult battle against a serious wrist injury that shortened his career in recent years.
The Austrian media is speculating that the tennis player, who became number three in the world, will retire after the Vienna Tournament (Erste Bank Open) to be held next October, to Until then he will begin a farewell tour of the most important and special tournaments for him.
definitely, one of which is Roland Garros, a tournament where he reached the final in 2018 and 2019. and the semifinals in 2016 and 2017. However, the Parisian tournament did not remember him when distributing its invitations.
The eight chosen were the French Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Alexandre Muller, Richard Gasquet, Térence Atmane, Harold Mayot and Giovanni Mpetshi-Perricarin addition to Australian Adam Walton and the American Nicolás Moreno de Alboránthese last two thanks to an exchange agreement with the Australian and American federations.
A very controversial decision and criticized by fanswhich considered the prestigious tournament chauvinistic and mistreated the historical players for not being French.
The same thing happens in the women’s category, where the chosen ones are the French women. Alizé Cornet, Fiona Ferro, Elsa Jacquemot, Kristina Mladenovic, Chloé Paquet and Jessika Ponchetin addition to the Australian representative, Ajla Tomljanovicand the American Sachia Vickery.
That leaves tennis players of the stature of Caroline Wozniacki, Emma Raducanu or Simona Halepthree Grand Slam champions, two of them former world number 1 who, like Thiem, have to earn their place in the qualifying phase.
Source: La Verdad
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