How high the expectations of netizens, how much disappointment will be. At the moment, Tim, the former little clay prince, seems to be running wild on this road!
After a 9-month truce, the much-maligned Tim finally appeared on the field! Although this is a very low-level challenge, everyone still has high expectations for Tim, thinking that with his strength, there is no problem in winning the game and regaining his confidence in the field, even if he finally wins the championship, it will not be surprising!
However, Tim's performance is really too bad!
The first round of the Atp Challenge in Marbella faced the world number 228 Cachin, who thought that with Tim's strength, even if he had been away from the field for a long time, the game should be one-sided, and Tim would win without suspense. Unexpectedly, Tim was swept out by the other side in two sets. Being eliminated in the first round of the challenge made fans who like him helplessly cover their eyes with their hands, unable to bear to look at the fact and Thiem's demise.
The highlight of Thiem's life came from the 2020 U.S. Open, when he defeated Zverev Jr. in the final to win his first Grand Slam title.
At that time, as the first Grand Slam champion of the men's tennis world after the 90s, many people thought that Thiem finally gave the post-90s players a breath of contention, which will completely break the judgment of Federer, Djokovic and Nadal on the Grand Slam champion, and will take over the men's tennis world in the future and become a new generation of men's tennis superstars.
Because before winning the US Open, Tim was a typical clay player, reaching the final of the French Open for two consecutive years in 2018 and 2019, although he did not win the title, but also let people see his good strength.
When he took the lead in achieving a major breakthrough in a grand slam in a hard court like the US Open, it shows that Thiem has successfully completed the transition from clay master to hard court player and is becoming more all-powerful. Not to mention that he is younger than the big three, and he will become a strong competitor in their future, and it is only natural that he will succeed the giants smoothly.
But what people did not expect was that it seemed that a US Open champion had exhausted Thiem's good luck and was soon plagued by injuries.
Since his wrist injury last June, his comeback plans have been delayed. This makes it difficult for many people to understand that Thiem has also had injuries in the past, and quickly returned to the field after a short recovery adjustment, but this time the time span is a little too long. Judging from the frequently announced event plans before his official comeback, this shows that his wrist injury has long been healed.
Tim's reluctance to return to the field of play suddenly makes people suddenly find that Tim, who dared to fight the field before, seems to be more and more afraid of the game.
Although Tim has also explained to the netizens' doubts, saying that he is not fully prepared. Obviously, such an explanation is very pale, and such an unconvincing explanation gives people a subtle change in Tim's mentality, and the mood has been completely judged compared with the two before the US Open won the championship. It's not that he's not ready, it's that he's afraid of losing when he steps on the field and doesn't dare to face this cruel reality.
As a professional player, it is terrible to have such a thought in your heart! Wanting to win and be afraid of losing, afraid of competing with competitors, will soon make him a marginal person in men's tennis.
Moreover, the 28-year-old Tim is not young among the men's players, and at a time when post-00s players such as Alcaraz are growing rapidly, this is an extremely dangerous signal for Tim.
If, like Federer, he has achieved incomparably dazzling results and intends to be half hidden and half retreating, it is understandable to do so. He has only won one Grand Slam title so far, and he is in the year of the fight, but he has become afraid of his hands and feet, and he really shouldn't.
He really should have learned from Murray in that regard. As a Grand Slam runner-up member and former world number one, no matter how badly Murray loses, it will not break his ambition to be on the field, which is the attitude that a professional player should have towards his work.
For Tim, who has now lost, some people predict that this time in a low-level game like the challenge, he lost so ugly, and then Tim may hang up the free card again!
If this is the case, Tim's "fear of the game" mentality has been like this, which is equivalent to self-destruction. Players younger than him will overtake him at any time and anywhere, making him an embarrassing figure in men's tennis. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Starry Sky of The Moon River)