Austrian tennis player Dominic Thiem has never left this group since joining the top 10 in 2016 and has become one of the most consistent players on the men’s tour. He achieved his best early career results at Roland Garros, where he won the semi-finals for the first time in 2016 and 2017 and then reached the finals in both 2018 and 2019, losing in both cases to the king of sand Rafael Nadal, but gained new experience for 2020, the Year that consecrated him in the world of tennis.
Currently, number 3 in the world is the most dangerous rival of the Big 3, a group made up of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and world leader Novak Djokovic. Thiem had big wins against her, beating her 16 times on every possible surface.
His most important defeats certainly include the two knockout games in the finals of the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals, but this last year he achieved his best result by winning the US Open in five sets against Alexander Zverev.
In New York he was 0-2 against the German and made an incredible and sensational comeback to win his first Grand Slam title at the age of 27.
Dominic Thiem and his 2021
Thiem started training for the new season about six weeks ago and is preparing to travel to Australia where he will reach Adelaide next Thursday.
He will be quarantined for two weeks and train with prominent tennis players in sight before the ATP Cup and the Australian Open. Looking to the year 2021, the season in which the world number 3 will certainly want to confirm his level again, he published the following words: “This year I was on vacation more than usual, but then the training went well.
For the first two weeks, I only did fitness thanks to the help of physical therapist Alex Stoner. In Australia I can only play with one training partner in the first week and with two others in the second week.
We can probably go out even without a mask even in the third week since the days of Indian Wells 2020, that’s sensational. I hope to be able to play all year and at least repeat the results of the last two, but most of all I want our lives to get back to normal as soon as possible. ”
–
