The tennis player Dominic Thiem, number 3 in the world, has expressed his sadness over the terrorist attack last Monday in Vienna, in which five people died, while announcing that it is recovered from a foot injury and will fly to London on Wednesday to participate in the ATP Finals.
“It is not a quiet autumn, the last two weeks have been very difficult,” Thiem writes in a text posted on his official website. “After the quarter-final elimination of the tournament at home, at the Stadthalle in Vienna, I healed the injury to the sole of my foot. Two or three days off, then I started preparing for the season finale at the O2 Arena in London, “he continues.
The tennis player is thus in shape for the new competition, despite being “very, very sad” by the murderous attack of a 20-year-old sympathizer of the jihadist group Islamic State on November 2 in the center of Vienna, the first terrorist attack that Austria has experienced in the last 35 years. The last one was “a week in which thousands of thoughts went through my head,” he reveals. Explain that your coach Nicolas Massu lived “the terrible attack” very closely, as he was dining in a restaurant near the crime scene, an area in which the attacker fired an automatic weapon indiscriminately at passersby and diners in bars and venues, killing four people and wounding a score of before being shot down by police. “Suddenly life in Austria came to a standstill,” recalls Thiem, who is also concerned about the epidemiological situation in his country, with a sharp increase in infections that has led the authorities to impose a second partial confinement with the prohibition of the public in all sporting events.
However, Thiem announces that he is going to London: “On Wednesday I am already flying to London with my mini-team. The last goal of 2020, the memories of last year are good.”