The figure of Dominic Thiem This is tennis history. The talented Austrian player ended his illustrious sports career on Tuesday after being fired from the first round of the ATP 500 in Viennaat home, against Italian Luciano Darderi.
Thiem, playing in the tournament with an invitation from the 563rd place in the world ranking, stood against the Italian player (42nd in the world) in the first set which he lost in tie-break 8-6. In the second, he had no choice and lost 6-2 to see how emotions took over the central court of the Viennese complex.
because, at 31 years old, injuries They are taking one of the most talented players recently off the courts early. Professional since 2011 and, for several years, he has been one of the young challengers to the ‘Big4’, the right wrist This has been a constant headache for Thiem that has kept him from the world’s first row.
During the grass contest Mallorca 2021in a match against Adrian Mannarino, the burden of all efforts was said to be enough. Thiem broke his right wrist and removed him from the list of stars he had become on his own merits. The injury kept him off the slopes for several months, until he returned in March 2022 in a challenger tournament.
Since then, he has had a string of tournament losses and early losses, with some presence in second-tier tournaments on the circuit. But his game never again resembled that of Thiem he fell in love with a few months earlier on the circuit. The final in another Austrian tournament, in Kitzbühel 2023, was the biggest success of his post-injury career, which is why Dominic announced at the beginning of 2024 that this season would be his last.
Until then, Thiem’s career was that of a circuit star. US Open Champion 2020Only Rafa Nadal in 2018 and in 2019 closed the doors to the Roland Garros title, where he was twice a finalist. He was also a finalist at the 2020 Australian Open and the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals and reached third place in the ATP rankings.
He was one of the top names on the circuit before his injury and it has given him a break with seventeen ATP titles and another twelve finals. Clay court specialist and excellent hard court player, among his achievements are, in addition to his title at Flushing Meadows, the last of his career, the Indian Wells Masters 1000 in 2019 and five 500 tournaments in Acapulco 2016, Rio de January 2017 and Godó, Beijing and Vienna 2019. A brilliant sporting career that has come to an end.
Source: La Verdad
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