By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday May 10, 2024
The talented Austrian will call time on his career at the end of 2024.
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By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday May 10, 2024
Dominic Thiem, one of the most talented players of his generation has decided to call it a career at the end of 2024. The 2020 US Open champion and former World No.3 announced the news via his Instagram on Friday.
“A very important, very sad but also very beautiful message,” Thiem said. “The season 2024 is gonna be my last one. I'm gonna finish my career at the end of the season.”
Now 30, and ranked 117, Thiem has struggled to regain his form after returning from a wrist injury that kept him out of the game from June 2021 to March 2022. Prior to that injury, Thiem was one of the most lethal forces in the sport who became a Grand Slam champion at the US Open in 2020 and also reached three other Grand Slam finals – at Roland Garros in 2018 and 2019 and at the Australian Open in 2020.
A terror on the clay, Thiem has amassed 167 clay court wins and ten titles on the surface, but he hasn’t been the same player for the last two years. In January, Thiem hinted that he was considering calling time on his career.
"If I finish the year at 100 again, you have to consider whether the whole thing is still worthwhile,” he said.
Now that he has made said retirement official, Thiem opened up about the reasons in his video.
“There are some reasons behind it,” Thiem continued. “Firstly, of course, my wrist. It's not exactly the way it should be, and it's not exactly the way that I want it. The second reason is my inner feeling. I was thinking about this decision for a very long time. I was thinking very carefully about it.
“Of course I was also thinking about the whole journey as a tennis player which was incredible. I've had success, I've won trophies I've really never dreamed off. The journey was incredible, all the ups and downs. It was an incredible experience, which I'm so thankful for. But in the end, I came to the conclusion that this decision to end my career by the end of the season is the only right one. I am very happy with it. And I am also super excited for everything that is coming next.”
Thiem will make his last appearance this October at his home tournament in Vienna. The Austrian currently owns 17 ATP titles and a 348-210 win-loss record overall. His game stood up to the top forces in the men’s game and his record shows it. Theim owns 16 wins over the Big 3, more than any other player born after 1990.
Thiem says he will be posting more information about his retirement in his Vlog in the upcoming days.