Dominic Thiem has been one of the constant targets of Nick Kyrgios. The Australian kept on blasting Dominic alongside Novak Djokovic and Sascha Zverev after the Adria Tour. However, the Austrian was never found positive after testing multiple times. Nevertheless, Thiem was criticized by social media for not auto-isolating after the Adria Tour to instead playing a rather conspicuous amount of exhibitions.
Talking with media outlets Krone, Dominic was asked bout commenting on Kyrgios’ criticism. Dominic replied:
“I don’t say anything more about that. It is his right, in a few weeks everything will be forgotten.”
Then the world no.3 admitted that the Adria Tour had to be a learning experience for everyone.
“Not repeating such a mistake – we all did not act with malicious intent. We came out of the lockdown into normality, saw the happy children and fans, and forgot the rules,” added Dominic.
Dominic Thiem in 2020
Ranked no.3 (career-high), Dominic played his last match on the 22nd of February when he capitulated to Gianluca Mager 7-64 7-5 in the quarter in Rio De Janeiro.
Dominic Thiem’s most significant result of the present year was getting to the final at the Australian Open.
Nick Kyrgios in 2020
Ranked world no.40, Kyrgios played his last match on the 25th of February when he had to retire when playing against Ugo Humbert in the 1st round and the scoreline was 6-3 .
Dominic Thiem and Nick Kyrgios played each other once. The head to head is 1-0 for Thiem. When they played, Dominic Thiem won 4-3 ret. in the 2nd round in Nice (Open de Nice Cote d’Azur) in May 2015.
