Thiem has plans for the future after this week’s retirement

Dominic Thiem will play his last event this week at home at the ATP Vienna tournament – but the 31-year-old Austrian already has big plans about how to spend decades of his future.

The 2020 US Open winner who played Roland Garros finals in 2018 and 2019 and who finished runner-up at the Australian Open four years ago, will wrap up his career due to seasons of  wrist and other injuries which first emerged in 2021..

But Thiem is not planning to follow the well-worn path into coaching. Instead he will work with his new solar energy company startup and also help out at his father Wolfgang’s tennis academy.

Thiem can expect an heroic sendoff this week from home crowds in the capital at the event he won in 2019.

But his focus will soon shift to business and his eco-friendly Thiem Energy project.

“We are already, working as a team. Since the decision is made that I’m going to retire with the Vienna week, we’ve already started two main projects,” he told Tennis Majors.

“One is Thiem Energy, clean electricity from the sun, a project that I believe is for the common good. Everybody can join it in Austria now, maybe one (day) internationally. And it’s a lot of work to do, actually.”

And there is also the tennis academy: “(After a brief pause from the sport) I really want to help young players to develop and to make the step from a junior to a professional player. I want to give back to tennis, as tennis gave me so much.”