‘I will only come back when I’m completely fit and in perfect shape for tough matches’: Dominic Thiem
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US Open champion Dominic Thiem won’t be able to defend his title this year as he is ruled out of the remainder of the season due to a wrist injury. The 27-year old was having an already poor season and the injury just added fuel to fire.
Theim expressed his disappointment in not defending his title and said that he needs some more time for his injury to heal. “After a week of training on the tennis court, I still felt pain in my wrist and knew that it had not yet healed one hundred percent,” he said in a press release.
“We decided to try conservative therapy to give the injury more time to heal. I am very disappointed not to be able to defend my US Open title and to miss the rest of the season,” Thiem added.
Speaking about his injury, Thiem revealed that he will only be back on the court when he is 100% in shape as he has many years of tennis left in him.
“I still have many years ahead of me in my career and will only come back when I’m completely fit and in perfect shape for tough matches,” he said. “The examinations have shown that the tendon sheath has still not healed.”
Thiem said that he doesn’t want to resume training until the end of October or the beginning of November at the earliest and his ideal time to return would be in January 2022 if everything goes according to the plan.
Thiem confident of a strong comeback
Thiem has been one of the most consistent players on tour from 2016 onwards but the 2021 season has been his worst since he began peaking. “This is my first really serious injury, it is also a new situation. I have to get used to it a bit,” he said.
Injuries can end a well established career in tennis and Thiem is aware of that. 2009 US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro has been struggling from injury since the past 5 years but the Austrian believes that Del Potro’s injury was different. “I think Del Potro was a little different. The players who had my injury came back very, very strong.”
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