Dominic Thiem talks about his happy memories at Roland Garros and his good form going into the clay-court major as he bids to win his first Grand Slam championship.
After a year inside the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Rankings, Dominic Thiem now feels like he belongs among the elite group. It wasn't always that way, though. For a time, Thiem looked at the Top 10 as a place for his “idols”, not a destination for the 20-something Austrian. “If you come there for the first time at quite a young age, I don't know, you look up to them, to the other ones in the Top 10 and feel strange somehow, because they have been your idols and now you're with them,” said Thiem, who joined the group as a 22 year old after his Roland Garros semi-final run last year. But the Austrian has more than...
Dominic Thiem and Pablo Cuevas produced sensational hot shots en route to quarter-finals upsets earlier this month in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 action. After five days of voting, fans crowned Thiem’s backhand strike against Rafael Nadal at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia as the Clay Masters Golden Hot Shot. It finished with 54 per cent of votes cast, ahead of Cuevas' no-look winner against Alexander Zverev at the Mutua Madrid Open with 23 per cent of votes. View Complete Results For Golden Hot Shot Thiem's hot shot brought up break point for the Austrian, and he promptly capitalised, going on to win three straight games to end Nadal's hopes for the Masters 1000 title treble. Cuevas, meanwhile, turned the...
Watch the best Hot Shots from the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome, including winners from Rafael Nadal, Sascha Zverev, Dominic Thiem and David Goffin. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Peter Staples / ATP World Tour.