Former US Open champion and world number three announces retirement from tennis

Former US Open champion and world number three Dominic Thiem has announced that he will be retiring from professional tennis at the end of the 2024 season.

The 30-year-old won his first and only Grand Slam title to date at the 2020 US Open, where he created history with a magnificent comeback triumph over Alexander Zverev in the final.

Thiem became the first man in the Open Era to fight back from two sets down in a US Open final, prior to which he had also taken Novak Djokovic to five sets in the 2020 Australian Open final but ultimately lost to the Serbian.

That same season, the Austrian hit a career-high ranking of world number three, and he also reached back-to-back French Open finals in 2018 and 2019, losing both contests to Rafael . . .