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Dominic Thiem (German pronunciation: ; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian professional tennis player. His career-high ATP ranking in singles is world No. 3, which he first achieved on 2 March 2020, and in doubles is No. 67, which he achieved on 7 October 2019. He is the second-highest ranked Austrian player in history, behind former world No. 1 Thomas Muster. He has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including one Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open where he came back from two sets down to defeat German Alexander Zverev in the final. With the win, Thiem became the first male player born in the 1990s to claim a Grand Slam singles title, as well as the first Austrian to win a US Open singles title. He had previously reached three other Grand Slam finals, losing at the 2018 and 2019 French Open to Rafael Nadal, and at the 2020 Australian Open to Novak Djokovic. Thiem was also the runner-up of the 2019 ATP Finals, where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas.
As a junior, Thiem was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. He qualified for the 2011 French Open Boys' final, and won the 2011 Orange Bowl. As a professional, he broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2014. In 2015, he won his first ATP title at the 2015 Open de Nice Côte d'Azur in France. The next year he reached his first grand slam semifinals at the 2016 French Open, by doing so he for the first time rose into the top ten of the world rankings where he has since been a permanent fixture. He went on to reach his first ATP Tour Masters 1000 final in 2017 at the Mutua Madrid Open, before reaching his first Grand Slam final the following year. Thiem won his first Masters 1000 title at the 2019 BNP Paribas Open Indian Wells, beating Roger Federer in the final.
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