2023-08-22 15:04:37
According to his brother and manager Moritz Thiem, Austria’s tennis star has “been suffering from a kind of gastritis for some time”, forecasts are currently not possible.
That can’t be true – one is inclined to say that Dominic Thiem’s comeback just doesn’t get off the ground. Almost a year and a half following returning to the tour, can one still speak of a comeback? In any case, it is clear that the series of bankruptcies, bad luck and breakdowns has been enriched by a chapter since Monday. Austria’s tennis star had to cancel his start at the ATP 250 tournament in Winston-Salem at short notice due to illness. It has also been known since Tuesday that his appearance at the US Open is also shaking.
Moritz Thiem: “You can’t say anything else yet”
As a reason for Thiem’s withdrawal, ATP gave gastroenteritis, i.e. a gastrointestinal flu. When asked, brother and manager Moritz Thiem then specified: “It’s a kind of gastritis (inflammation of the gastric mucosa, note). We’re trying to get it under control. He’s had it for some time. Nothing else can be said yet. ” It also seems clear that a start at the US Open, which begins on Monday, will be a race once morest time. After Thiem skipped the recent ATP 1000 tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati, instead preparing “intensively” for the US trip with his German coach Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh in his home country, the 29-year-old goes – if at all – on hard court without any match practice into the last Grand Slam tournament of the year in which he triumphed three years ago.
Thiem is regularly ill
The prospects of starting the last third of the season successfully are clouded by the current illness. Thiem repeatedly has to struggle with physical problems due to his apparently weak immune system. It was only in Wimbledon that he was not certain to start due to a cold, so Thiem skipped the ATP Challenger followingwards in Salzburg. Now Thiem is already in New York, but the trip overseas might be over before the first rally. The roller coaster ride continues at full speed with one or two glimmers of hope, such as the final in Kitzbühel, but far more setbacks.
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