Thiem in a sentence

Djokovic and Thiem faced each other in the semi-finals in 2016, with the Serbian winning easily, but Thiem turned the tables the following year in the quarter-finals before reaching his first grand slam final in France last year.

The players split the first two sets — Thiem took the opener 6-2, then Djokovic grabbed the second 6-3 — and Thiem was up a break at 3-1 in the third when action was halted.

Stan Wawrinka, Dominic Thiem, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Maria Sharapova celebrated in style, but perhaps Thiem wins this one, donning a Santa hat from on a motor boat.

Continuing with his impressive record at the Madrid Open, Dominic Thiem moved past Briton Kyle Edmund 6-4, 6-1 to set up a second-round clash against Stefanos Tsitsipas, here on Thursday.

Dominic Thiem (pictured), of Austria, withdrew during the second set of his second-round match on Wednesday after looking unwell while leaning onto the net.

Elsewhere, on the men’s side there wins for Dominik Thiem, Casper Ruud, Taylor Fritz and the 4th seeded Holger Rune.

Thankfully, no fans or players were hurt as Thiem may have had a fright but dug in to snatch the victory in three sets.

Thiem looked down and out at 3-5, 0-40 on McCabe's serve.

Thiem now remains only one win away from reaching the main draw.

And there’s a few handy hitters in the qualifiers - led by recent US Open champions Dominic Thiem and Emma Raducanu as they both return from their own injury lay-offs.

Dominic Thiem admitted he will miss the "high" of winning after his Grand Slam career came to an end at the US Open on Monday on the same Arthur Ashe court where he won his only major in 2020.

His return to tennis in Brisbane began smoothly with wins over Dominic Thiem and Jason Kubler before his loss to Thompson, in which he required a medical timeout and looked hampered before going down 7-5, 6-7 (8), 3-6.

Instead of a straightforward victory for Thiem against Alexander Zverev, chaos reigned.

Massu, who won the men's singles and doubles gold medals in the 2004 Olympics, coached Dominic Thiem when he won the U.S. Open in 2020.

Now, after losing to Dominic Thiem in the 2020 US Open final, the 26-year-old missed a golden opportunity to achieve that status on Sunday.

Rafael Nadal returned from his year-long injury absence with a bang by winning an engrossing first-round battle with Dominic Thiem at the Brisbane International.

Thiem had already announced his intention to retire from tennis on home ground in Vienna in October, giving up on his fruitless battle to fully recover from a persistent wrist injury.

After losing back-to-back finals to Nadal at Roland Garros in 2018 and ’19 and then falling to Djokovic in five sets in the championship match at this year’s Australian Open, Thiem beat Zverev to finally win his first major at the U.S. Open in September.

And now that he did, a new reality sunk in. “Dominic Thiem, Dennis Novak, Mate Pavic, Marc Polmans, Alexander Bublik, Radu Albot…” he starts listing.

Apart from Thiem’s 4 clay court wins, he won the 2020 Australian Open QF in a thrilling match.