Borna Coric beats Dominic Thiem - as a comeback player in 2022
Borna Coric has been named Comeback Player of the Year 2022 by the ATP. Dominic Thiem, who was also nominated, went away empty-handed.
by tennisnet.com
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Dec 15, 2022, 08:02 am

Borna Coric was denied the last big sporting triumph at the end of his comeback season: At the Davis Cup final tournament in Málaga everything seemed set for a Croatian victory, Coric also played his part in the semifinals against Australia with a single win. But then Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic lost the decisive double. It was still an impressive season for Coric, crowned with his first success in an ATP Masters 1000 tournament. In Cincinnati, the 26-year-old successively beat Lorenzo Musetti, Rafael Nadal, Roberto Bautista Augut, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Cameron Norrie and in the final Stefanos Tsitsipas. A few weeks later in Vienna, Coric was in the semifinals again, but lost to Denis Shapovalov.
Coric will winter at position 26. Another reason why the comeback player award for 2022 went to him and not to Dominic Thiem, who was also nominated. The Austrian had started his season in Marbella and with strong results, especially in the autumn, he was once again approaching the extended world elite.
There was also no surprise when the coach was chosen for the past season: Juan Carlos Ferrero, once number one in the world himself, won the race. Ferrero is known to be responsible for the agendas of Carlos Alcaraz, whom he led to his first Grand Slam title at the US Open in 2022 and to the top of the ATP charts.