Juan Martin del Potro and Dominic Thiem - back on tour in pair skating
Juan Martin del Potro and Dominic Thiem are already working hard on their comebacks on the tour. Most recently, the two top stars shared video material showing their very different advanced training courses.
by Michael Rothschädl
last edit: Jul 21, 2021, 09:55 am
Juan Martin del Potro and Dominic Thiem have in common not only a crashing forehand (which is probably a lot more crashing for the Argentine) and the triumph at the US Open, above all one encounter. This dates from 2017, round of 16 in Flushing Meadows. Thiem started on the day like the fire brigade, got the first two sets with 6: 1 and 6: 2 in a fast train.
What followed is one of the greatest comebacks in the long career of Juan Martin del Potros - and one of the bitterest defeats in that of Dominic Thiem. The Argentine bought the quarter-final ticket in five sets. And that after the Lower Austrian seemed downright inviolable over long stretches, especially since del Potro was anything but up to date physically in the initial phase.
Del Potro increases intensity
It was also the physique that demanded a lot of patience from the 32-year-olds in the past, since June 2019 the former world number three has not played a match on the ATP tour. The great success of the sympathetic giant, they look like from a distant past. The update that the 32-year-old shared on social networks is all the more gratifying.
In this, the flapping arm of the Argentine is already swinging reasonably well, apparently del Potro is already working with increased intensity. This is by no means missing in the build-up units from Dominic Thiem mentioned at the beginning, who in turn shared a video that shows the US Open champion from 2020 during movement training.
Thiem hopes for the US Open
With one small restriction: Thiem, who has been suffering from a stubborn wrist injury since the ATP 250 event in Mallorca, holds the racket in his left hand shaped last days. Thiem had already revealed on his homepage a few days ago that fitness was already at an extremely high level: "In any case, fitness shouldn't fail - since the beginning of this week I've been doing a decent program, in this case things are finally looking up . "
The 27-year-old's big dream is and will be to compete - and thus defend his title - at the US Open in just over a month. "Of course I have to wait and cure everything in peace, but I secretly hope that a start at the US Open might end up after all. To be in New York as the defending champion would be a dream," Thiem recently said. The first pictures back at the tennis court are quite positive, at least in terms of footwork.