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He lost the Roland Garros final twice in a row to Dominic Thiem in 2018 and 2019 against Rafael Nadal, and this year Novak Djokovics made it to the Australian Open final, but the 2020 US Open finally brought him the long-awaited success: his first victory of the Grand Slam tournament. The 27-year-old Austrian tennis player is on his way to the top, already if the top is defined as first place in the ATP world rankings and not as a Grand Slam success.
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| Check mark after first victory in a Grand Slam tournament (Photo: Twitter, @ThiemDomi) |
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As already reported, the 27-year-old is Austrian Dominic Thiem won the final of the 2020 US Open in New York, which was the first Grand Slam tournament since the beginning of the calendar year; the Roland Garros fights in Paris and Wimbledon in London have also been postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic. In the final, German Alexander Zverev was Thiem’s opponent, who fought for the first Grand Slam final of his life and also led 2-0, but then lost three sets and the game. With this, Thiem became the first tennis player since the introduction of the 1968 Open to win one of the finals of the big four tournaments, emerging from a double-set deficit.
LONG TERM TALENT
Born in Vienna, Thiem was born into a true tennis family, as both her mother and father worked as sports coaches; her first-born children enrolled at the Günter Bresnik Academy at the age of three, where her father, Wolfgang, worked. As a teenager, Thiem reached second place in the ITF World Youth Rankings, scoring 115 youth victories before turning professional. In 2014, at the age of twenty, she made her first ATP 250 tournament final and. It was the year that a significant part of the tennis world took notice after defeating new Australian Open winner Stanislav Wawrinka at the ATP 1000 tournament in Madrid.
He eventually had to drop out of the race due to illness. A year later, Thiem had already won three ATP tournaments and was indisputably among the stars of the tennis world. He also showed it in 2016 by reaching the first Grand Slam tournament semi-final of his life at Roland Garros, but was hit by a real breakthrough from tennis player Novak Djokovics.
Thiem was already in the top ten in the ATP World Rankings that year, and since then there has been no one in the sport who hasn’t known his name.
When Dominic Thiem made his breakthrough in tennis! | Summary of Madrid 2014 vs Wawrinka
The day Dominic Thiem scored his first historic victory: defeating Australian Open and Monte Carlo champion, and No.3 seed Stan Wawrinka in 2014 in Madrid …
FINAL CURSE – BUT NO MORE
Three years, three finals, three defeats: this was Thiem with the Grand Slams in early 2020, and in the meantime it turned out that due to the coronavirus epidemic, Roland Garros (where it would have been one of the main odds of the tournament) did not even will dispute. However, it has been a success for him to win one of the four most important tournaments in the sport.
He reached the semi-finals at Roland Garros for the second time in 2017, but unfortunately he ran into Rafael Nadal, the most successful scum tennis player of all time. He reached the final both times in the next two years, 2018 and 2019, but failed to break Nadal’s impeccable balance in the Paris Grand Slam final – both times, the Spanish class won their finals in three and four sets. .
Although his knowledge shone year after year at both the US Open and Australian Open, Garros seemed to give him a real shot at winning a Grand Slam even during the reigns of the Big Three (Novak Djokovics, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal). . – Wimbledon was there, of course, but in the most traditional turf tournament, reaching the quarter-finals has been the best result for him to date.
In 2020, he finally reached the final of the Australian Open with Djokovics, Federer and Nadal participating in the tournament, defeating the Spanish in the quarterfinals. In the end though Novak Djokovics He beat him again in an extremely fierce five-fight match.
Dominic Thiem vs Novak Djokovic – Match summary | Australian Open 2020 Final
Watch the highlights of Dominic Thiem vs Novak Djokovic’s match in the 2020 Australian Open final.
IN ABSENCE OF GIGS
Is it detracting from the merits of Dominic Thiem that two giants of the Federer trio, Nadal and Djokovics, who have won a total of 56 Grand Slam tournaments that define the millennium and even the entire history of the sport, have not started and the Serbian has been expelled from the 2020 US Open? It’s a matter of individual opinion, but it’s certain that winning is worth exactly the same as other GS successes.
Thiem is in third place in the world rankings, and 2020 has already begun, which will close with two of two Grand Slam finals and a victory in GS. He has won a total of 17 ATP races during his career and at the age of 27 became the youngest GS winner since the triumphant 2014 Marin Cilic.
Furthermore, he is the only Austrian to win a major tournament since Thomas Muster’s success at Roland Garros in 1995. Sure, for Thiem it was an easier thing to do in this tournament that he didn’t have to face any superclasses, but he could still claim he’s a Grand Slam winner, and he might still be among the biggest chances for years to come.
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@ThiemDomi, 27, is the youngest Grand Slam champion and the first inaugural Grand Slam champion since @Cilic_Marin, 25, in 2014 #USOpen.
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