Thiem Joins Wawrinka As Marbella Challenger Wild Cards

  • Posted: Mar 25, 2022

Thiem Joins Wawrinka As Marbella Challenger Wild Cards

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Austrian to kick off comeback from wrist injury

It has been more than nine months since we last saw Dominic Thiem on court. The Austrian star suffered a right wrist injury during the grass-court swing last year and has been fighting to return to action ever since.

That long wait is finally over. On Thursday, the Austrian announced that he will take a wild card into the AnyTech365 Andalucia Open, an ATP Challenger Tour event in Marbella, Spain. The Challenger 125-level tournament will start on Monday.

“I want to start getting contact with the competition after all these months and I believe this is the right way to start,” said Thiem on Instagram. “It’s been a very, very tough period for me and to go back to competition is what I have been waiting for so long and as you know I had a lot of setbacks. I know this will be a slow process of getting back to the top level, but I am ready to work hard and start humble.”

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Thiem joins fellow former World No. 3 Stan Wawrinka as main draw wild cards. The tournament revealed Wawrinka’s participation on Monday. It marks the first time that two former Top 3 players will compete at the same Challenger event.

Thiem was last seen at the Mallorca Championships in June, when he retired from his first-round match against Adrian Mannarino with the wrist injury. Wawrinka, meanwhile, suffered a foot injury in March 2021 and has not played since the Qatar ExxonMobil Open.

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