Recovered Thiem starts preparations for ATP Finals

Austrian Dominic Thiem stated he has recovered from a foot damage he suffered throughout a match in Vienna and can journey to London this week to participate within the season-ending ATP Finals.

U.S. Open champion Thiem struggled with blisters in the course of the Vienna Open final month and his title defence at his residence match ended when he misplaced within the quarter-finals.

The world quantity three subsequently pulled out of the Paris Masters to offer himself time to recuperate for the ATP Finals, which is performed between the highest eight males’s single gamers and doubles groups and will likely be held in London from Nov. 15-22.

“Nothing is quiet in fall – the last weeks have been busy,” the 27-year-old stated in a submit on his web site.

“After losing in the quarter-final at my home tournament in Vienna I recovered from my foot injury. It took me two, three days to recover, then I started my preparation for the final in London at the O2-Arena.”

Thiem went down narrowly to Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas within the closing of final 12 months’s match after defeating Alexander Zverev within the semi-finals and Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic within the group phases.

“On Wednesday I am leaving for London with a ‘mini-team’. The final goal of 2020, the memories of last year are nice!” he stated.

Last week, Thiem’s residence nation reported report variety of infections from the novel coronavirus. The capital Vienna witnessed a lone gunman kill 4 folks in a rampage on Monday.

Thiem referred to as the assault “very, very sad” and stated his coach was near the scene.

“It was a week with thousands of thoughts in my mind. My coach Nicolas Massu literally experienced the atrocious terror attack in Vienna, was close having dinner at a restaurant and was locked up until 2:30 at night,” Thiem stated.