The nightmare has no finish for Dominic Thiem: “The wrist hurts”

The previous few months have been a nightmare for Dominic Thiem. The eliminations within the first spherical on the Australian Open and the Challenger in Szekesfehevar, Hungary, mixed with the clear debacle within the second spherical of the Challenger in Zadar in opposition to compatriot Lukas Meumayer additional undermined Thiem’s temper and consciousness.

The Austrian was the sufferer of a protracted ordeal after a severe wrist damage and has been dwelling with a sub-optimal bodily situation for a while, which doesn’t permit him to return to the tennis participant admired till 2020, when he received his first and solely Slam, US Open.

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Lastly, the circle was closed by the choice not to participate within the Naples Challenger, a match presently underway, through which he ought to have taken half.

Dominic Thiem’s unhappy message

After just a few days the Austrian wished to justify this lump sum by explaining how issues actually are: “Good day everybody. I wished to provide you all a message, particularly after the rumors which were circulating over the previous few days, and I wished it to be by my social media, so that you simply all know the reality. As you all know, I began working and coaching once more after the Australian Open.

I wished to get again to the coaching that made me an excellent participant. We began coaching like once I was youthful, with quite a lot of depth, quite a lot of photographs and quite a lot of hours on the courtroom. Sadly, a bit earlier than my return to the Hungarian Challenger, my wrist began to have some issues.

I began having these clicks once more which bothered me rather a lot and which resembled those I felt once I returned from the damage three years in the past. Additionally, that bizarre feeling has come again and become ache over the previous few weeks.

Lastly, there’s a small irritation: that is why I withdrew from the Naples Challenger. In the mean time, the state of affairs is the next: I’ve slowed down the laps a bit, I’ve lowered the depth of the coaching classes, making them a bit shorter, as a result of there’s a little bit of optimism and an excellent likelihood that I can return to Estoril. I wish to play there once more, that is my objective. Thanks to your assist, see you quickly,” he wrote.

A message that doesn’t bode properly and that sees him more and more heading in the direction of a retirement that was hypothesized and feared a while in the past.

In abstract: “My wrist is hurting once more. It is the identical ache I felt once I returned from damage three years in the past.” Is his profession over for him?