“It’s been two years since I’ve been trying to get back among the best. I’m giving it this season, if I hang around 100 again, you have to think about whether it still has any meaning at all,” the tennis player said to the Austrian media in February of this year.
Although Thiem reached the round of 16 in Estoril, Portugal, he finished in the qualifiers in Monte Carlo and Madrid, and was eliminated in the first round in Munich, Germany.
And as can be seen from the information, the decision has come. End. The Austrian should play for the last time in the second half of October at an indoor event in Vienna.
Thiem’s wrist problems have been going on since the summer of 2021, when he first injured it. After a break of more than a year, he was unable to return to his former level. He is currently ranked 117th in the world rankings.
