Yes, Tim is retired again!
Just when a group of famous players arrived in Australia to start preparing for the 2022 season, Tim from Austria withdrew again, and after retiring from the Mallorca Open in June this year due to a wrist injury, Tim has been hanging up the exemption card, and the entire 2021 season is directly reimbursed.
Recently, former US Open men's singles champion Tim updated the dynamics, saying that he will withdraw from the 2022 Australian season, he said in a statement:
"After a short holiday, my team and I have evaluated next year's schedule accordingly, and at the end of January next year I will start the new season in Córdoba."
"So I'm not going to travel to Melbourne for the Australian series."
"Of course, Melbourne is a city I love very much because I have so many unforgettable memories there and I will miss the Australian fans and I will definitely be back in 2023."
"I believe it was a very correct decision to return in order to have a good posture for myself. I'll be taking a few more days off in Austria in the near future, and then heading outdoors to practice and warm up for the first leg of the new season. ”
Although he will not compete in next year's Australian Open, Thiem's statement can still let everyone see a positive side, and the Austrian star will return to the tennis world at the end of next month.
Tim also mentioned in his statement that he has many good memories in Melbourne, so how did he play at the Australian Open, one of the four Grand Slams?
Born in 1993, Thiem made his australian open debut in the 2014 season, which was also the year of his official rise, and he won his first victory in the Australian Open regular tournament, ending in the second round.
However, it was not until 2016 that he broke through his best second-round performance here, and his more advantageous Grand Slam, hailed by fans as the "little prince of clay", is of course the French Open.
In 2016 and 2017, he has been able to reach the top four of the French Open men's singles consecutively, while the best result of the Australian Open is still the fourth round, and Wimbledon and the US Open are also the fourth round.
Of course, the Australian Open still witnessed Thiem's historic first - the 2020 Australian Open, Thiem defeated Bolt, Monfils, Fritz, Nadal and Zverev to reach the men's singles final of a hard court Grand Slam for the first time in his career.
The final opponent was Serbian king Djokovic, and although he ultimately missed the championship, Thiem dragged the men's singles final into the decider, and Djokovic defeated Thiem 3-2 to win the championship.
After the Australian Open this year, Thiem's world ranking reached a record high of third place, and in 2020, he finally won the cup as he wished, becoming the first post-90s player in men's tennis to win a singles Grand Slam title.
With the rapid growth of younger players such as Medvedev and Zverev, there is more and more discussion about whether Thiem can return to the top and win a Grand Slam again, so what do you think about this? (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)