Dominic Thiem is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including one Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open. His career-high ATP ranking in singles is world No. 3, which he first achieved on 2 March 2020, and in doubles is No. 67. As a junior, Thiem was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world.
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Dominic Thiem is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including one Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open. His career-high ATP ranking in singles is world No. 3, which he first achieved on 2 March 2020, and in doubles is No. 67. As a junior, Thiem was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. He won the Austrian Sportsman of the Year award for 2020, the fourth time a tennis player has won the award since its creation in 1949. Thiem has some of the biggest groundstrokes of the tour, consistently hitting big with both his forehand and his single handed backhand. At 1.85m, he possesses a serve reaching up to 145 miles per hour, which he often uses to set up effective one-two punches. He is coached by Günter Bresnik and has a younger brother, Moritz Thiem, who is also a professional tennis players. He was born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria on 3 September 1993 to Wolfgang and Karin Thiem. He grew up in Lichtenwörth and began playing tennis when he was six years old. He reached the final of the 2011 French Open Boys’ event by defeating Kyle Edmund, Michell Kruger, Filip Horanský, Oriol Roca Batalla and Mate Delić before losing a close final to Bjorn Fratangelo, in three sets. He finished his junior career with a 115–33 win-loss record in singles and 49–32 win- loss record in doubles.
He turned pro in 2011, mainly competing in ITF Futures events and making his ATP main draw debut after he received wild cards to the main draw of Kitzbühel, Vienna and Vienna. In 2012, he recorded his first ATP win, over Thomas Muster, before losing to Steve Darcis in the second round of the Bangkok Open. In 2013 Thiem competed in 34-15 in matches with three titles with three Challengers, while also receiving wild cards at ATP Tour level to his home events. In 2014, he broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2014. In 2015, he won his first tournament at the Open de Nice Côte d’Azur in France. The next year he reached his first Grand Slam semifinal at the 2016 French Open. He went on to reach his first Masters 1000 final in 2017 at the Madrid Open, before reaching his first Slam final the following year at the 2019 Indian Wells Masters, beating Roger Federer in the final. In 2019, he became the first male player born in the 1990s to claim a Grand Slam singles title, as well as the first Austrian to win a US Open singles title. He had previously reached three other Grand Slam finals, losing at the 2018 and 2019 French Open to Rafael Nadal, and at the2020 Australian Open to Novak Djokovic. He lost in the quarterfinals of the 2019 ATP Finals to Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev respectively.
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