Dominic Thiem wants to put an end to the game and results crisis that he is going through at the start of the season. After his early elimination in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship against the South African Lloyd Harris, the Austrian tennis player has decided to stop temporarily to find solutions.
In the press conference after his loss to Harris, Thiem announced that he will not play the Miami Open, adding to the already confirmed casualties of Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal. “I'm having a hard time and it wouldn't be ideal to go to Miami.” Thiem himself pointed out that the problems could be due to foot discomfort, although he confessed that the main problem is that he is not happy with his game.
And that is reflected in the results that the Austrian has reaped this season, where in nine games he has 5 wins by 4 losses. In the ATP Cup Thiem could not beat Berrettini although he did beat Paire and in the Australian Open, where he defended last year's runner-up, he had a great start and overcame a difficult situation by coming back two sets to Nick Kyrgios However, in the round of 16 suffered a tough defeat to Grigor Dimitrov in three sets, with donut included in the last set.
A defeat that still affects Thiem, who fell to Roberto Bautista in the Doha quarterfinals after beating Aslan Karatsev in the second round and that with his recent loss to Harris in Dubai has decided to take a break before the arrival of the clay court season, his favorite surface, where Thiem hopes to re-deploy his best tennis and end this bad streak at the start of the season.