What Happened to Dominic Thiem? Injury & Retirement Updates By is an Austrian professional tennis player, currently ranked 210 on the ATP World rankings. In the past, he ranked as high as No.3 in 2020 and also won his first grand slam.
However, earlier, he announced that he would be retiring from the sport at the end of the 2024 season. He also reportedly claims Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal contributed to his injury, leading to his early retirement. So, let’s take a closer look at the details of Thiem’s and his retirement after the US Open.
What injury did Dominic Thiem suffer from? Thiem redeemed himself when he won the US Open in 2020 after facing Alexander Zverev in the final. However, his journey thereon went slightly downhill. His recurring wrist injury majorly contributed to his decreased performance in games.
However, he also claims that and Rafael Nadal contributed to his injury getting worse. He told in an interview, “It took a toll, especially as a mere mortal trying to compete with the sport’s three demigods (R. Nadal, R.
Federer and N. Djokovic). That contributed to the injury, definitely.
I was competing with the three greatest of all time. That was intense.” Further, he added about his injury, saying, “But also, all the years before, I always had a big load and intensity in my practice.
That’s something the doctor and many other people said: that at one point, the wrist broke because of all the shots I did, all the hard practice I did all those .