Bye bye Dominic Thiem: he announced that this ATP tour 2024 will be the last of his career. He is 30 years old now and well, he earned around $30 million in prize money and he feels it is the right decision.
He has played some amazing games I think, but his trend was pretty much only negative in the last few years. Unbelievable that his last win on the ATP tour was this amazing match against Zverev in the US Open final. Best ranking ever was 3rd and he can say he won a Grand Slam. Sounds like a successful career to me. Can't compare everyone to Djokovic, Nadal and Federer.
He has played some amazing games I think, but his trend was pretty much only negative in the last few years. Unbelievable that his last win on the ATP tour was this amazing match against Zverev in the US Open final. Best ranking ever was 3rd and he can say he won a Grand Slam. Sounds like a successful career to me. Can't compare everyone to Djokovic, Nadal and Federer.
I think its the right decision for Dominic. The game has moved on, the younger players
sre hard to beat and older players find it difficult to get far in tournaments after coming
back from injuries. Its best I think to retire on a positive vibe i.e whole still playing, similar
to what Rafa is doing, last week he bade the Madrid tournament farewell as it was his last.
I fully agree and he was talking about a wrist injury as far as I remember and that he has plans already for the future. There is no point in wrecking your body and then throw the towel when it is too late. I wanted to say that I didn't understand Murray but I do understand him, because if you are a professional sports man and dedicated your whole life to it because you loved it, it's to stay "I am going to stop here". But Murray, a successful player and multimillionaire who has many years to go in life, gets all these surgeries and still wants to go. He has a hip implant and I think no matter how hard you try, but tennis such a taxing sport. How in the world would he compete with the Sinner and Alcaraz guys?
That's why I think Thiem got the timing right. Still fresh, rich and has plans.
Murray is an anomaly, he like Thiem is rich, has his own clothing business, he doesnt
need to be playing and wont be beating any top 10 players.
Gasquet is another player in the same scenario, he should also retire after this season
and Fils also is approaching that time although his performances are still decent.
Yes but this is purely talking about age. If we talk about age, Federer should have stopped earlier, Nadal should have stopped earlier. I think there are special circumstances that require individual approaches. Federer was competing for more GS titles and won titles at the age of 37 and 38. He also had a certain responsibility towards the sport as a whole and he understood that. Nadal is the same.
Murray has a different story. He has done a lot for the sport and he is a GS winner, there are no unfulfilled dreams. And he is rich of course. Running around with a hip implant, I am not sure that is the right decision when in fact he reached his last semifinal in a GS in 2017. Look at Wikipedia what this guy is doing. He keeps going and could not get past the 3rd round in a GS for 7 years now. I find that weird. I can't imagine he is playing without pain.
Djokovic might be getting back in shape. Nadal got destroyed, but he is going there and at least doing it for the fans. He wants to win, but I think he is realizing that it is ok his time has come, but he didn't want to say goodbye in an Instagram post. Good decision.
