 "Dominic Thiem set to retire at the end of 2024: Report")
Dominic Thiem is reportedly slated to retire at the end of the 2024 season after injury plagued last couple of years. The Austrian has failed to regain form after a long-term wrist injury derailed his career.
Thiem, who has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, had hinted in January that he was considering retirement while assessing “whether the whole thing is still worth it”.
“I see this as my last chance. If I make it, it can happen quickly. I’ve been back for two years now since the injury, and I finished 2022 on 100 or so and last year on 98. If I finish the year on 100 again, you have to think about whether it’s still worth it,” he had told Der Standard.
He added: “I’ve been in rankings for two years now that I don’t want to be in. Of course that weighs on me … I’ve been chasing the feeling of really being able to play tennis in a match again for a long time. And the way I expect myself to.”
Ranked 117 in the world now, Thiem played the qualifiers of the Madrid Open last week where he lost in straight sets to Australia’s Thanasi Kokkinakis.
Salzburger Nachrichten reports Thiem will retire at the Vienna Open, which runs from 21-27 October, to be able say goodbye to home fans.
Thiem went 9-3 against Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in the 2019-20 season, before winning his first Grand Slam at the 2020 US Open - triumphing over Alexander Zverev in a five-set marathon at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, Thiem has been affected by a number of injuries with his wrist being a major problem.
The 30-year-old, who has finished runner-up at the 2018 and 2019 French Open as well as the 2020 Australian Open, has won only two of six matches he’s played this season on the ATP Tour.
At the start of the 2021 season, Thiem revealed he lacked motivation and the results dipped as a result. While struggling with wrist and knee injuries, Thiem played 18 matches with a 9-9 win-loss record.
The following season didn’t go any better as he won 18 and lost 16 matches and dropped out of the top-300 in the rankings. He returned to the top-100 in October and remained at the same mark at the close of last year following a 19-24 record in the season.
In April he had said that he had accepted he wouldn’t regain his form of 2020. “As I said in my last interview, I’m not the player of 2020 anymore,” wrote on social media. “I have to deal with the current situation, with the fact that my wrist doesn’t give me the strength it used to. I have to be honest with myself.”
Thiem’s last title came at the 2020 US Open at Flushing Meadows while his latest foray into a tournament final was the 2023 Austria Open where he finished runner-up to Sebastian Baez.
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