Dominic Thiem

He followed this with a title in Peru at the Grade 2 Inka Bowl and another Grade 1 title at the 32nd Torneo Internazionale "Citta' Di Santa Croce" Mauro Sabatini in Italy.

With the win, Thiem became the first male player born in the 1990s to claim a Major singles title, as well as the first Austrian to win the US Open singles title.

Dominic Thiem (born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian professional tennis player.

Thiem was born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria on 3 September 1993 to Wolfgang and Karin Thiem, both of whom are tennis coaches.

He has a younger brother, Moritz Thiem, who is also a professional tennis player.

Thiem grew up in Lichtenwörth and began playing tennis when he was six years old.

Thiem's father, Wolfgang, began working as a coach at Günter Bresnik's academy in Vienna in 1997, when Thiem was just three years old.

Bresnik became Thiem's coach formally from age nine.

It was Bresnik who advised the change of Thiem's two-handed backhand to a one-handed backhand when he was 12 years old.

Bresnik has said that Thiem's junior results took a dip for about a year while the stroke developed.

Thiem struggled with health issues when he was 17 years old, which he attributed to a large growth spurt of 16 cm he had that year.

Thiem entered his first event on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior circuit in early 2008 when he was 14.

He did not play many events in 2008, returning with a fuller schedule in 2009.

He won his first junior title at the Preveza Cup, a Grade 5 tournament held on hard court in Greece.

Thiem followed this with another title in 2009 at the Grawe Junior Cup, a slightly higher level Grade 4 tournament, on clay in Croatia.

In 2010 Thiem won his first Grade 1 tournament on clay at the Country Club Barranquilla Open, in Columbia, without dropping a set.

He was seeded eighth at the 2010 French Open Junior Championships but lost in the first round to Ashley Hewitt.

He also lost in the first round of the US Open Junior Championships before winning the XXIV Yucatan World Cup 2010 and the Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships back to back.

As a junior, Thiem was ranked as high as world No. 2. He was runner-up at the 2011 French Open boys tournament, and won the 2011 Orange Bowl.

Thiem reached an ITF Junior Circuit ranking of world No. 2 (combined singles and doubles) on 3 January 2011.

Thiem reached the second round at the Australian Open Junior Championships in early 2011.

In May he reached the final of the 2011 French Open boys' event losing a close final to Bjorn Fratangelo, in three sets.

He lost in the third round of the Junior Championships, Wimbledon, and in the first round at the 2011 US Open Junior Championships.

Thiem completed his junior career by winning his last three singles tournaments, the XXV Yucatan Cup, the Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships and culminating in taking the title at the Orange Bowl International Tennis Championship in Plantation, Florida, United States.

He won the next tournament he played, the 12th Gerry Weber Junior Open, a Grade 2 tournament held on grass.

As a professional, he broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2014.

In 2015, he won his first ATP title at the 2015 Open de Nice Côte d'Azur in France.

The next year he reached his first major semifinal at the 2016 French Open.

In doing so, he first entered the top ten of the world rankings.

He went on to reach his first Masters 1000 final in 2017 at the Madrid Open, before reaching his first major final the following year.

Thiem won his maiden Masters 1000 title at the 2019 Indian Wells Masters, beating Roger Federer in the final.

In 2021, Thiem suffered a wrist injury that has weakened his results, but has since slowly risen back up to the top 100.

Thiem has some of the heaviest groundstrokes of the tour, consistently hitting big with both his forehand and single-handed backhand.

He had previously reached three other Major finals, finishing runner-up at the 2018 and 2019 French Open to Rafael Nadal, and at the 2020 Australian Open to Novak Djokovic.

Thiem was also runner-up at the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals, where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev, respectively.

Generally thought of as a baseliner, he has added more variety with the use of a sliced backhand and more netplay since adding coach Nicolás Massú to his team in March 2019.

At 1.85m, he possesses a serve reaching up to 145 mph, which he often uses to set up effective one-two punches.

He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, which he first achieved in March 2020.

Thiem has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including a Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open where he came back from two sets down to defeat Alexander Zverev in the final.

Thiem won the 2020 Austrian Sportsman of the Year award, the fourth time a tennis player has won the award since its creation in 1949.