Dominic Thiem: “I threw up every day”

The results of a gastroscopy should not come until Monday. Therefore, Thiem’s ​​Davis Cup appearance this week in Schwechat against Portugal was still open.

“Depending on how this turns out, we will see whether I play or not,” said Thiem at a press conference on the Erste Bank Open. “All the blood tests are already there, I have quite a stomach infection.” He first had complaints in July in Gstaad, before his final in Kitzbühel. After the home tournament things got worse. “It was strange because I was fit. But I threw up every single day. Towards the US Open I became more and more tired.”

He knows the complaints a little from before, but in the training week before the US Open – after the tournament in Winston-Salem was canceled – it “really came to the fore. It kept getting worse instead of better.” At least he hasn’t had to vomit since taking medication. “I’m definitely on the mend.”

“Confident that I will play well again quickly”

Thiem suspects that he may have caught something while eating. “All the traveling, the different food, we’re a little more susceptible to it. If it’s bacteria, I’ll probably get medication.” In any case, the health restrictions would still have an impact. “The body was a little beaten up.” In the past few days, the 30-year-old, who has been 30 since September 3, has started training individually.

It probably won’t take him a long time to get back to his current best level. “If the stomach is okay, I’m confident that I’ll play well again relatively quickly. I played well in the USA and the fitness level is right. The good thing is that now there’s something every week. Davis Cup, when I play, bad Waltersdorf, then Asia. Every week until Metz in mid-November I have a chance to demonstrate my good form. That’s why I want to get fit again as quickly as possible.”