Dominic Thiem
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Dominic Thiem (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔmɪnɪk ˈtiːm]; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the ATP, achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 2020 US Open. He was also a Grand Slam finalist at the 2018 and 2019 French Opens, and at the 2020 Australian Open. Thiem was runner-up at the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals. As a junior, Thiem was ranked as high as world No. 2. He was runner-up at the 2011 French Open boys tournament, and won the 2011 Orange Bowl. As a professional, he broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2014. In 2015, he won his first ATP title at the 2015 Open de Nice Côte d'Azur. He reached his first major semifinal at the 2016 French Open. In doing so, he first entered the top ten in the ATP rankings. He went on to reach his first Masters 1000 final in 2017 at the Madrid Open, then reaching his first major final the next year. Thiem won a Masters 1000 title at the 2019 Indian Wells Masters, beating Roger Federer in the final, before going on to reach three more major finals, winning the third at the 2020 US Open. With that win, Thiem became the first man born in the 1990s to claim a major singles title, as well as the first Austrian to win the US Open singles title. In 2021, Thiem suffered a wrist injury from which he never fully recovered, ultimately retiring from the sport following the 2024 Vienna Open.
Thiem had some of the heaviest groundstrokes of the tour, consistently hitting big with both his forehand and single-handed backhand. Generally thought of as a baseliner, he added more variety with the use of a sliced backhand and more netplay after adding coach Nicolás Massú to his team in March 2019. At 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in), he possessed a serve reaching up to 145 miles per hour (233 km/h), which he often used to set up effective one-two punches. Through the end of 2024, Thiem remains the last one-handed backhand player to win a singles major. Thiem won the 2020 Austrian Sportsman of the Year award, the fourth time a tennis player has won the award since its creation in 1949.