I named my cat after Dominic, love him, what a one hander ... all the best for the next chapter of his life

Love Dominic, sad it ended like this

Dominic is heavily involved in environmental and conservation causes. I believe he will take up a career in that field 😊

👏so well put andy! i'd wish the austrian crowd and media would appreciate his mindset and effort like you guys do, it's sad😢

Dominic Thiem’s story is so similar to Juan Martin Del Potro. Won that first slam at the U.S. Open and suffered an injury that derailed their career. Del Potro did have a second career that was good but not great. All the best to Thiem. Great competitor and human being.

I remember it being said pre US Open win that he needed to learn to manage his schedule, playing every week.

hope you are okkkk ✨

I hope you heal faster 😢

I think the peak thiem was 2019 and 2020 specially atp world tour finals 2019 amd 2020 aus open .... He was magical to watch so athletic would reach out for most balls ....amazing forehand one of the best backhand .... Its really sad to see him go this early

Andy, hope you heal up soon.

Not a word about Diego Schwartzman's retirement announcement???

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Such a great player to watch. I thought he would be have been around a lot longer. Reminds me a little of Guillermo Coria who was pretty much the king of clay from 2003 to 2005 and then ran into Nadal and had some battles including an epic match in the Rome final of 2005. A few months later he seemed to forget how to serve and his game fell apart and found himself in a similar position to Theim for the remainder of his career.

Thiem was awesome and a great person. The challenge for his style of play and that of Alcaraz is that it is very hard on the body. Only Nadal has managed to get away with a relentless style of play for a long period of time.

Wow such sad news, a real shocker, very talented but alas such a short career.

Thiem has the second best one hander in history. The only one who has a better one is Wawrinka.

Roddick threw hands? Looks like it was him that fought Usyk yesterday..

Did I miss the episode that Andy tells us what happen to him?

Sad news indeed! Austrian tennis has been marred and snake bit, over the years, Thomas Muster Dominic Thiem

I believe the added lead weight strips to his racquet and his heavy blue collar rallies lead to his wrist problem….

Love your podcast Andy, We are all sorry and sad to hear about your condition and we all hope treatment will work, quickly, we all also hope that you and your family are doing well. NGL you kinda have deadpool vibes, sorry. Thiem is underrated, and yes that USO final was the worst and shittest final, mens or womens that I have ever seen.

The human body can only take so much. Dominic was playing great tennis way above his pay grade. You're asking too much of your body to produce at these high levels time and time again. This retirement is really not all that surprising.

Andy, what's up with the sun burn?

Tennis is brutal. Losing Söderling, Thiem, Del Potro etc. to illness/injury is truly sad. I'd like to see less matches on hard courts more on grass. The only matches in male slams that should go to five sets are the semis and/or finals. The guy's side is too attritional with levels of athleticism so high and too much time on court.

I think its more mental for Dominic; he rushed into the roland garros the same year he won US Open. Rafa deliberately didn't play the US Open for that reason so i think he put unnecessary stress since that was his best surface. He also stopped playing and took a mental break i think after the lost to dmitrov in australia which was shocking. Sadly he was the only one out of his group that the big 3 feared and fell short in the two ATP finals. He lost both finals after he made room for stephanos and danil when he took out the giants. So clearly its more a mental thing and the only reason why the US open finals felt that way is because of the crowd. Its hard to watch him play now as he cannot get the ball deep anymore and there is no weight on his shot. Sadly he should have taken a couple years off to heal but i guess its difficult to make that decision when you want to compete. Job well done and he will be missed

@2:24 I heard about this a lot - from being the ugliest final to lowest viewership... but why? Didnt get to watch the match in full, so wonder why? I know zverev lost the 2-0 lead, but why was it ugly? I would think it should have been exciting, that Thiem was able to turn the tables. I was rooting for Sasha though

WG acted like an A**! She knows NOTHING about tennis. In that particular situation with Thiem, Serena acted like a jerk; Thiem, as always, was a class act.

what happened to your face Andy?

Ugliest GS men’s final has to be Korda vs Rios AO ‘98. Korea’s level was low and Rios was HORRIBLE. That one is far worse than Thiem/Zverev USO with no crows

Bro what happened to your face you got tanned in saudi arabia ?

Treating your sun damaged skin , I see. Good. It’s important to look after yourself

What's up with your cheekbones, Andy? Looks like you've spent too long in the sun and got a bit burnt

What's going on with Andy Roddick? He looks like an overripe strawberry.

Very poor analysis of Thiem. So lacking in any real subject knowledge. Gill Gross gave a much richer analysis.