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After his final defeat against Daniil Medvedev hat Dominic Thiem Balance of the tennis year 2020.
by Jens Huiber
Last edit: November 23, 2020 10:53 am
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Sweden and Iceland should have been in terms of holidays, but in the given circumstances, Dominic Thiem has to reorient himself. Especially since it has not yet been determined when the Australian Open will be held in 2021. And when players can travel underneath. Memories of Melbourne are positive, the year of tennis 2020 started quite normally, as Thiem emphasized again at the press conference after his final loss to Daniil Medvedev in London.
First with the ATP Cup in Sydney, then with the first major of the season, in which Dominic Thiem had reached his third final in a Grand Slam tournament. To all of you who briefly nodded at the time: In the meantime, there was a very limited phase of collaboration with Thomas Muster, which in Melbourne became a side note again.
Thiem thinks Rublev is the top 5
So far so normal. When Indian Wells was canceled in March, a phase of uncertainty began, after which Dominic Thiem suddenly found himself in the Bundesleistungszentrum Südstadt, at Patrick Mouratoglou’s academy near Nice and in front of full seats on the Adria Tour in Belgrade (yes , actually Thiem was also at the beginning, even athletically successful) playing tennis again.
Thiem’s 7 in Kitzbühel was certainly fun and word got out, the host lost there to Andrey Rublev in the final (to Rublev, who by the way ranks Thiem in the top five players of the year). The sporting highlight followed, of course, in New York City, with winning the US Open.
No pressure against Ruud, Gaston and Schwartzman
But when was Dominic Thiem’s biggest fun factor in this strange, sad year 2020? “Probably at the French Open in the third and fourth rounds,” Thiem noted after careful consideration in his final press conference. At Roland Garros, the now 27-year-old played first against Casper Ruud, then against Hugo Gaston, who tortured him with dropshots to the square. What did not bother Thiem, the meeting with Diego Schwartzman in the quarterfinals remained in his fond memory.
“I was still playing the wave of success at the US Open and I didn’t push myself as much. There were people there, there was a really cool atmosphere, with all those balls stopping in the sand, that was really cool. Before that at the US Open and then in Vienna and here, I expected a lot from myself. ” He said he didn’t go to the games before and after that as uninhibited as at the French Open.
