The lingering results of a 2021 wrist harm restricted Dominic Thiem’s skill to generate energy remaining yr however the former international quantity 3 stated he can depend on his large guns once more after making a powerful get started on the Monte Carlo Masters.
Thiem broke the Grand Slam stranglehold of Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic via profitable the 2020 US Open however the harm sidelined him for months and different niggles noticed him slip down the scores to quantity 352 remaining June.
After a first-round go out on the Australian Open in January, and disappointing performances within the tournaments that adopted, Thiem made the quarter-finals of the Estoril Open and beat Richard Gasquet 6-1 6-4 in his opener in Monaco.
“Some positive signs happened already in Estoril and today (Monday), I had the feeling that I was doing from time to time good damage with both forehand and backhand,” stated Thiem, who subsequent performs Holger Rune.
“The energy wasn’t there remaining yr even if I began to win fits and performed higher. In the interior season the facility wasn’t there but. Also possibly now not to start with of the yr.
“In the last month it’s coming back, especially in practice. The shots are there, the power is there like before, but I was using it wrong. There’s full trust again in the wrist and the forehand.”
A go back to most sensible shape on clay could be an encouraging signal for the sector quantity 106 forward of the French Open, the place he reached the overall in 2018 and 2019 sooner than shedding to Nadal on each events.
After pronouncing on the weekend he had cut up with trainer Nicolas Massu, Thiem has joined up with Benjamin Ebrahimzadeh and hopes the partnership will undergo fruit.
“There wasn’t a lot of time,” Thiem stated. “I needed a coach right away so we decided to start the relationship and give it a try.”