After Davis Cup-Aus: Thiem separates from the management agency “Kosmos”

Austria’s tennis star Dominic Thiem and his management Kosmos are now going their separate ways. This was announced late Monday evening by the investment group Kosmos and shortly afterwards also confirmed by Moritz Thiem, Dominic’s brother. The collaboration lasted less than two years and was also marked by the long injury break of the 2020 US Open finalist.

Vienna. “There’s not much more to say about it, we ended the partnership with Kosmos without a dispute or anything like that. Which was also very important to us,” commented Moritz Thiem on the separation of Kosmos and Galo Blanco, who has been acting as manager since mid-June 2017. The investment group last made headlines after the ITF canceled its much-announced $3 billion Davis Cup deal with the International Tennis Federation.

On Saturday at the Davis Cup in Rijeka, when asked by APA about the failure of this deal, Dominic Thiem said to what extent this made him thoughtful: “My management will not make me a better player, my management will not ignite the fire in me either. It doesn’t matter who manages me. It also has to be said that Kosmos wasn’t very lucky with me. I signed and five days later my wrist was shredded. It didn’t go well for me or them. What comes from the outside is not important at the moment. It is important for me that I fully ignite the fire.”

Galo Blanco’s predecessor, Styrian Herwig Straka, had also expressed his opinion on the subject of the APA in Rijeka. “It’s very difficult for me. Obviously, it makes more sense to have native language management, from your own country. Even the greatest players of all time ultimately have many sponsors in their own market. Roger Federer has six or seven sponsors from the Switzerland,” explained Straka.

Negating the market you come from is always dangerous. “In this respect, it makes little sense to have international management, but I don’t think that’s the problem,” the Styrian locates other causes in relation to the difficult phase in Thiem’s ​​career.

How things will continue in terms of management Thiems is currently open. Brother Moritz wants to take care of the press agenda, more was not yet known.