Dominic ‘Domi’ Thiem started playing tennis at the age of six and got his pro break at 18 after winning a wildcard for the Generali Open in Kitzbühel, Austria, in 2011. Coming from a family of tennis players – his parents are tennis coaches and his brother also plays – it’s no surprise that he’s pursuing a career in tennis, despite also loving football and skiing.
Thiem's first match win at main level came in 2011 on the ATP World Tour in a match against countryman Thomas Muster at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna and the wins kept coming. He won four ITF Futures tournaments in 2012, stepping up to a level to land three Challenger titles in 2013. Then in 2014 he ranked in the top 100 of the ATP world singles. That same year he made the second and third rounds at Masters 1000 events at Indian Wells, Miami, Barcelona and Madrid, where he also enjoyed his first win against a top-10 player, the number three-ranked Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland.
