US Open champion Dominic Thiem out of Wimbledon with injured wrist

Reigning US Open champion Dominic Thiem pulled out of Wimbledon and two different tournaments on Thursday due to an injured proper wrist.
Thiem would have been seeded No 4 on the All England Club, the place main-draw motion begins on Monday.
“I’m going to do everything the doctors say in order to recover as quickly as possible,” Thiem mentioned.
“They’ve informed me that I might be out for several weeks, but I will do my best to be back on court soon.”
The 27-year-old from Austria retired through the opening set of his first match on the Mallorca Open grass-court tuneup match this week, citing his wrist.
Thiem then went to Barcelona for extra assessments, which discovered what his administration group mentioned on Thursday is a “detachment of the posterior sheath of the ulnar side of the right wrist.”
Thiem might want to put on a wrist splint for 5 weeks earlier than beginning a rehabilitation program. He mentioned he’ll sit out Wimbledon and tournaments at Hamburg, Germany, and Gstaad, Switzerland.
The US Open begins in New York on August 30. He received his first Grand Slam title there final yr by getting back from a two-set deficit to beat Alexander Zverev in a fifth-set tiebreaker within the closing.
Thiem has struggled in 2021, going simply 9-9. He misplaced within the first spherical on the French Open final month.