On May 10, Austrian tennis star Dominic Thiem announced that he was about to officially retire after the end of this season. The 30-year-old former US Open champion and former world No. 3 had to retire young due to a long-term injury.
Tim said he knew it was a difficult decision, and he thought it was the right one. He said his wrist injury has not recovered as expected and that he will end his career at the end of the season.
Tim was born in Vienna, Austria, to a tennis family where both his parents were professional tennis coaches. Under the influence of his parents, Tim showed a love and talent for tennis from an early age. Tini rose to prominence as a teenager and turned professional in 2011.
In 2014, Thiem reached his first tour final at his hometown tournament Kitzbühel, and a year later in Nice, France, Thiem claimed his first tour title. Thiem's career has reached 29 finals on the tour, winning 17 titles and 12 runners-up.
Among the four Grand Slam tournaments, Thiem has reached the finals of the Australian Open, French Open and US Open, including two French Open finals to Nadal in 2018 and 2019, and Djokovic in the 2020 Australian Open final, and he defeated Zverev in the 2020 US Open final to win his only Grand Slam title, and he is also the first Grand Slam champion of the post-90s generation in men's tennis.
In addition to his impressive record in the four Grand Slams, Thiem also reached the final twice in the year-end finals, but unfortunately finished runner-up in both cases. In ATP1000 Masters-level competition, Thiem has reached the final three times, winning his only Masters title in 2019 at Indian Wells.
Winning the 2020 US Open seems to have drained all of Thiem's luck. In the 2021 season in Mallorca, Thiem retired due to a wrist injury, and since then Thiem's career has been on a downward spiral. The rankings have plummeted, the results after the comeback have not been satisfactory, and the injury problem has not been completely resolved...... Tim finally decided to end his career.