Dominic Thiem third in the world rankings for the first time
Dominic Thiem took third place in the world ranking published on Monday - and is thus higher than ever.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Mar 02, 2020, 09:58 am
Thiem currently has 7,045 points and is only behind Novak Djokovic (10,220) and Rafael Nadal (9,850). Thiem benefits from Roger Federer's injury-related time-out : the Swiss lost his 500 points from last year's victory in Dubai, currently only getting 6,630 points.
However, Thiem has to defend a proud 1,000 points from his tournament victory in 2019 at the upcoming Masters tournament in Indian Wells. Federer cannot pass him - he also has 600 points to make up for the final, but is out - Thiem would stay in front of Federer even if he got out early. However, there is competition lurking behind with Daniil Medvedev (currently 5,890 points). The man from Moscow "only" has to defend the third round in Indian Wells.
Thiem - the ranking history
As a third in the world rankings, Thiem is higher than ever. A brief look at his entire world ranking history: Thiem was first listed in the ATP world ranking on August 9, 2010 as number 946 .
On June 18, 2012 , he cracked the top 500 as number 499 for the first time.
The top 200 was on September 9, 2013 : Thiem had first won a future tournament in Italy and then reached the final at the Challenger in Como, ranking 166th.
Then on February 17, 2014 he cracked the top 100. In the spring he showed up for the first time at the big tournaments on sand (in Madrid he won against Stan Wawrinka), moved into the top 50 on July 21, 2014 and reached Kitzbühel his first ATP final (loss to David Goffin). The next milestone followed a year later when he reached the top 20 on August 10, 2015 (after tournament wins in Nice, Umag and Gstaad).
Thiem reached the top 10 for the first time on June 6, 2016 , after reaching the semi-finals at the French Open (loss to Novak Djokovic), he achieved the top 5 on November 6, 2017 with 4th place. March 2020, Thiem is now number 3.
How far is it for him ..?