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Dominic Thiem
Few players struck a ball with the violence Dominic Thiem did. The one-handed backhand, whipped with a full-body lash, made him the rare man willing to trade blows with Rafael Nadal on clay: he lost the 2018 and 2019 Roland Garros finals to him, then pushed Novak Djokovic to five sets in the 2020 Australian Open final. By March 2020 he was world No. 3.
The breakthrough arrived in the strangest setting tennis has known, an empty Arthur Ashe Stadium in the pandemic September of 2020. Two sets down to Alexander Zverev, Thiem became the first man since 1949 to win a US Open final from that deficit, sealing it 7-6(6) in the first fifth-set tiebreak the title match had seen. His 1 slam crowns a haul of 17 career titles. A wrist injury suffered in June 2021 never properly healed; the strike faded, and he retired at 31 in October 2024, at home in Vienna.