Thiem additionally admitted after his victory that coming back from his lengthy harm battle was harder mentally than it was bodily. "The physical trust is there, you know. Since the injury I have played many tournaments," he added.

"I did many, many practice sessions. I really also gave a lot of load on the wrist again. So it's completely fine. The mental side was not that easy as restore the arm was. Was not doing the same job I was used to before the injury, so that was not easy.

"Yeah, with each success, with each match, particularly with greater successes or higher weeks like I had in Austria once I performed my first finals or additionally right here, again on successful methods in Grand Slams, it helps rather a lot on the psychological aspect and to get the complete belief once more within the wrist. And, yeah, that it does 100% what I need with the forehand."