We hardly dare to believe it. Dominic Thiem will no longer play on the ATP circuit at the end of the 2024 season. The Austrian, a true prodigy of men’s tennis, will definitely have known it all. From a discreet start to his career to a lightning explosion making him the standard bearer of a hungry “next gen”, without forgetting a tragic descent into hell, the former world number 3 will have left no one indifferent.
Unable to return to the heights he left in 2021, the 30-year-old player ended up facing the facts: his body no longer allows him to perform at the level that allowed him to establish himself on the scene. world of our sport. In a poignant video posted on Instagram, ‘Domi’ announced: “The 2024 season will be my last”. Obviously very affected by this decision, the winner of the 2020 US Open very humbly explained that he simply could not recover from his terrible wrist injury (contracted in 2021). In all likelihood, ‘Domi’ plans to end up at home in Vienna.
This announcement risks creating an outbreak of tributes and regrets within the tennis world in view of the immense popular support that the 1m85 right-hander has always received. While other major players are expected to retire this year (Nadal, Murray, Gasquet, Cornet, etc.), the end of a cycle for world tennis seems to be confirmed and many tributes are likely to be reserved for the former 3rd in the world. Starting with Roland-Garros where we cannot imagine that he would not receive invitations.
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