Dominic Thiem’s long-awaited return to the tennis courts will have to wait a little longer. The Austrian tennis player announced on his social networks that You will not be able to compete in the ATP Cup 2022 or the ATP 250 tournament in Melbourne due to a cold that he contracted while in Dubai, where he began his preseason. Thiem clarified that he underwent a test to rule out a possible positive for COVID-19 and the result was negative, but this cold prevented him from training during the last week, and his long downtime – half a year – implied taking too high a risk in the ATP Cup, so he decided to return to Austria.- In the statement, Thiem justified himself saying that “I can’t take the risk of coming back too soon and suffering a new injury. The time I spent in Dubai was great and I have increased the intensity and level of training and my wrist is almost 100%“. Thiem was entered in the Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament in which Nadal was fourth in his comeback, but He also announced his farewell to the Mubadala World Tennis Championship at that time.. – Thiem’s goal, as well as Rafa Nadal’s, is to play the 2022 Australian Open, but he postponed his decision until the last days of December. It will be at that moment when it will be known if the 2020 US Open champion will be present in Melbourne, which in the second half of 2021 has been unprecedented due to a wrist injury that has separated him from the fight to be the witness of the Big Three, a battle in which Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev have the upper hand right now. –
