Wolfgang Thiem Reveals What Makes Dominic Thiem Work Hard

Dominic Thiem finally became a Grand Slam champion in 2020 and reached the finals of the ATP Finals as well. In the troubled season, the Austrian continued his way forward with consistency. To reach this level, Thiem spends hours in practice and has one of the gruesome training regimes on the tour.

Thiem’s father Wolfgang Thiem in a recent interview with L’Equipe mentioned how his son’s works hard. On social media, there are various videos of Thiem pushing himself to the limit during his practice sessions. Wolfgang said that his son’s endurance and focus levels have always been high, thus prompting high intensity and long duration training sessions. He said:

“It’s a combination of an innate tendency and his consistency. He could always endure very long practices. When he was on the Junior tour, sessions became very hard, high intensity, but he was never losing his focus.”

Dominic Thiem’s coach Nicolas Massu speaks on the player’s 2020 season

Thiem’s coach Nicolas Massu reviewed the player’s 2020 season. Citing consistency as the key habit in Thiem’s game, Massu was thrilled with Thiem’s all-round abilities and said:

“It was super complex to do a better year and with few tournaments he did it: he finished 3, winning his first Grand Slam and winning on surfaces where previously the results were not the same as on clay.”

Dominic Thiem is ready to challenge the Big 3

Massu even claimed that Thiem is ready to compete with the ‘Big 3’ of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Thiem is now more polished with his strokes and is good on all surfaces. Massu said:

“It will always be difficult to play against the best in history, but if there is anyone who can compete equally with them it is Dominic. He is very complete: he plays well on all surfaces, he has a great serve, forehand, backhand, he moves well. He has the talent to do things much better than you think.”

Physically, Thiem is in his prime. He now has to conjure the mental part of the game as well. In crucial finals, Thiem gets tensed and underperforms. Once Thiem can manipulate his mental strength, then he can be even more lethal against his rivals.

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