On June 22nd, Thiem suffered a tear in the tendon sheath and the associated joint capsule in the right wrist at the Wimbledon preparatory tournament on Mallorca and has not played a match since then. “After a week of training on the tennis court, I still felt pain in my wrist and knew that it had not yet healed one hundred percent,” said the 27-year-old on Wednesday in a press release from his management.
He visited his doctors again. “We decided to try conservative therapy to give the injury more time to heal. I am very disappointed not to be able to defend my US Open title and to miss the rest of the season, ”said Thiem. Nevertheless, the world number sixth believes that this decision is correct. “I still have many years ahead of me in my career and will only come back when I’m completely fit and in perfect shape for tough matches.”
Training does not start before the end of October
Thiem is apparently still a long way from that. In the previous week he felt almost the same pain with a forehand in training as he did two months ago on Mallorca, he said on ORF television. “The examinations have shown that the tendon sheath has still not healed.” He doesn’t want to resume training until the end of October or the beginning of November at the earliest. “If everything goes according to plan.” His “ideal” is to return to the tour in Australia at the beginning of the year.
Thiem about his injury
Dominic Thiem talks about his failure for the rest of the season.
“This is my first really serious injury, it is also a new situation. I have to get used to it a bit. “Thiem is supposed to wear a splint for another six weeks before he can start with specific exercises for the wrist and strengthening exercises, so that he can then resume training on the field.
Thiem is not worried that, like the Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, the 2009 US Open winner, he might have to struggle with wrist problems for years. “I think Del Potro was a little different. The players who had my injury came back very, very strong.”
Davis Cup home tournament would have been a “highlight”
Thiem is particularly sorry that he cannot play in Innsbruck for Austria in the Davis Cup final tournament against Serbia and Germany in November. He had been looking forward to it for a long time: “That would have been an absolute highlight, maybe also a certain career highlight. It hurts that I’ll miss it. “
