Dominic Thiem on collaboration with Thomas Muster: "It would be perfect for me"
The chances of a commitment by Thomas Muster in the support staff of Dominic Thiem are good. At the edge of the ATP Finals, World Ranking Fifth even expressed great interest in receiving input from the 52-year-old Styrian.
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last edit: Nov 17, 2019, 01:39 pm
It's up to him, there's already talk, there's nothing fix, except for the ATP Cup and of course there will be a week of preparation, "revealed Thiem , A first test phase will take place before the Australian Open. "We'll see how this works together, and I hope that if that turns out well, I expect that there might be intense cooperation."
Thiem expects help in many areas and also the feeling of having someone on hand who has already fulfilled the same dream helps. Muster is still the only Austrian to win a single Grand Slam tournament (French Open 1995).
"Sure he has a lot of clue about what he has achieved in the sport, that aura, he knows exactly what it's like to be late in the big tournaments, as it is after two really long weeks to go out again at a Grand Slam and get his best, "explained Thiem. Exactly these things are. "How he felt that he was helping me there."
Dominic Thiem: "Grand Slam drives me"
Because of course, the next step for Thiem must be the fulfillment of his dream, the dream of Grand Slam victory. "I have not reached my big career goal yet, that's what drives me every day."
But also Federer, Djokovic and Nadal still drives a lot, despite all their successes. Thiem also sees this as the reason for the particularly high level of the group stage at the ATP Finals this year. "It has not always been that way: there have been terrible games there, including myself," he said with a laugh. The reasons for the 2019 level are different for Thiem, so for him Stefanos Tsitsipas is due to an injury earlier in the season even fresher, similar to him even after the virus disease before the US Open.
"Nadal and Djokovic had a very big goal in mind with the number 1, Federer wanted revenge for the Wimbledon final." Thiem hoped that this level will continue in the semi-final and the final on Sunday.
Dominic Thiem happy about new string: "Everything is perfect"
Thiem will also continue his collaboration with racquet company Babolat, which is also responsible for his string. In December, the specially developed for him synthetic string "RPM Power Electric Brown" will come on the market. "I'm incredibly happy about that, I've always had the feeling that there's something better there since I actually came on the road and now, since Hamburg, I'm playing with the new string from Babolat and after a settling-in period I realize that the string is perfect for me, "enthused Thiem.
It sounds like an advertising slogan, but Thiem puts it this way: "Control, power, spin - everything is really right there." The experiments with hybrid strings, ie mixtures of artificial and natural gut strings are history. "Because with a pure synthetic string I just get a better spin and have always had problems with the gut string." In addition, according to Thiem, the artificial string forgives a certain inaccuracy. "If you have days, if you do not hit the balls perfectly."