{"id":117119,"date":"2025-09-03T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117119\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:25:05","slug":"dominic-thiem-calls-for-tennis-to-make-a-change-to-the-way-they-treat-players-after-matches-i-think-its-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117119\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Thiem calls for tennis to make a change to the way they treat players after matches, \u2018I think it\u2019s too much\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dominic Thiem is one of tennis\u2019 most likeable characters, but he has now emerged with a rather controversial opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Having retired just last year, his relationship with tennis has been somewhat severed over the last 12 months or so.<\/p>\n<p>However, he is still remembered fondly as a great competitor and an affable individual who enjoyed a phenomenal career capped off by winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>His career lasted for 13 years, and he played on every stage imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>That makes him perfectly placed to weigh in on what needs to change within the sport, with <a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/tag\/dominic-thiem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Thiem<\/a> already proposing the steady dissolution of one area.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Thiem thinks post-match press conferences should be removed<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Business of Sport podcast, he was asked about his thoughts on players being carted into media rooms immediately after matches.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it be a win or a loss, if you have been requested, you have to go. Otherwise, face an extraordinary fine.<\/p>\n<p>Touching on this strange rule, Thiem admitted: \u201cI think it\u2019s too much because you basically have to answer the same questions. If you play 35 tournaments a year, it\u2019s 35 times of the same question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too much. They should reduce it a bit. If you have won or lost, if it\u2019s a big surprise, of course, you have to do it, but I don\u2019t know. If you are number one in the world and you won your second round match 6-2, 6-1, and you have to answer the same questions again for 30 minutes. I think it\u2019s too much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit quality above quantity which is not happening at the moment, I would say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn football, sometimes the players are with the coach on the press conference, you choose the players, but they don\u2019t have to be there every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How good actually was Dominic Thiem?<\/p>\n<p>To perfectly sum up just how good this Austrian sensation was, one need only look at his record against Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennishead.net\/hes-the-player-with-the-best-win-rate-of-all-time-against-all-the-big-three-but-is-now-involved-in-a-different-sport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thiem has the best win rate of all time against the Big Three<\/a>, better than Andy Murray, Alexander Zverev, Stan Wawrinka\u2026 the best.<\/p>\n<p>It is for this reason, as well as his cruel injury record, that made him such a well-respected and revered member of the ATP tour, lauded by fans and players alike.<\/p>\n<p>As touched upon earlier, this culminated in his crowning achievement in New York. However, he also reached another three Grand Slam finals, and even won the title in Indian Wells too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1272336808-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Thiem with the US Open trophy\" class=\"wp-image-308656\" \/>Photo by Matthew Stockman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Thiem competed during inarguably the toughest era in tennis history, and he competed well.<\/p>\n<p>His iconic one-handed backhand and brutal forehand made him a joy to watch when fit enough to truly compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominic Thiem is one of tennis\u2019 most likeable characters, but he has now emerged with a rather controversial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,21278,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-117119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dominic-thiem","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}