In his first interview since saying his retirement on the finish of this season, Dominic Thiem dominated out a Marcel Hirscher-style comeback in snowboarding on Sunday. “For me, the choice feels very, very ultimate. I can not think about it,” stated Austria’s tennis star and US Open winner in an ORF TV interview with “Sport am Sonntag”. Windischgarsten. The choice made three weeks in the past was a aid. “The weeks and months earlier than have been very troublesome. I did not make the choice from someday to the following,” defined the 17-time ATP match winner.
After the wrist damage in Mallorca in 2021, he stated he “by no means bought the sensation in his wrist the way in which it did earlier than the damage. I had the sensation that I used to be delicate when it got here to method.” Even reaching the Kitzbühel ultimate final 12 months did not change that; he achieved this success extra with combating spirit and routine. “By way of enjoying inside, I felt something however convincing and virtually mourned the outdated wrist.”
He can’t see that extra would have been attainable in his profession, with a complete of 4 main finals and two finals on the ATP Finals. “I had an unimaginable time and was capable of dwell out my dream and my entire tennis life very intensely.” Although he will probably be 31 in October, when he performs his final match within the Stadthalle in Vienna, and that’s not a excessive age in tennis. “Personally, I really feel older and extra mature to shut this chapter. I actually do not see it as too early or that one thing else might have occurred.”
Trying again, he regrets a bit that he made so many stops together with his coach instantly after his time with coach Günter Bresnik (till 2019). “On reflection, I’d swap to the household proper now, the in-between, the various separations have been pointless.”
Thiem shrugged off repeated criticism that he ought to have stored sport and household extra separate. “It labored properly, and I am solely criticized as a result of I do not play properly sufficient or haven’t got sufficient sporting success. One has nothing to do with the opposite. The one cause why the sporting performances aren’t proper is mine.”
After his profession, Thiem needs to dedicate himself extra to his environmental and sustainability issues, together with an power neighborhood in cooperation with a photo voltaic power supplier (Thiem Vitality). “Soccer can be a matter near my coronary heart. I’ve a dream of founding a membership someday that’s sustainable, that mixes all the problems. And that youngsters and younger folks do a whole lot of sport.”
Thiem’s match schedule for the top of his profession has not but been confirmed. Along with the already confirmed wildcard in Mallorca (grass) and the looks in Kitzbühel and at last Vienna, he apparently additionally has the grass tournaments in Halle and Wimbledon in his sights.
