“As you all know, I started to practice again with my dad after the Australian Open to get back to the practice that made me really good. We started to practice like I did when I was younger with a lot of intensity, a lot of strokes, a lot of hours on the court. Unfortunately a little bit before the Challenger in Hungary, the first tournament back for me, my wrist started to make some issues again.”

Comparing the ache to the problems he skilled when he first obtained injured in 2021, Thiem continued: “I started to have those clicks again, which bothered me also straight after I came back from the injury three years ago. And also this strange feeling came back and it turned into pain in the last weeks, and there's a minor inflammation there. That’s why I also pulled out of the Napoli Challenger last week.”

However, Thiem remains to be planning to play as early as subsequent week after adjusting his observe classes. “Right now the situation is that I turned down the volume a bit. I'm practising a little bit less, also a little bit shorter because chances are good that I can make it to Estoril, that I can play there. That's the plan as well. I want to start playing there which is my goal,” he concluded.