New fitness trainer for Raducanu believes Thiem will improve further going into 2023: "He will be stronger, fitter and faster than ever before"

The new trainer for Emma Raducanu Jez Green wrote an exclusive piece for tennishead.net talking about what Dominic Thiem will do in 2023.

The trainer is still currently working with Thiem and will work with him to prepare for 2023 alongside Raducanu. He trained Andy Murray and some other tennis professionals in the past as well. The piece he wrote for tennishead talked about Thiem and his expectations for 2023.

He wrote:

"It has become very easy to forget just how good Dominic Thiem is. Watching him practice now, he’s as good as he always was. When he was on fire, two years ago, he could beat Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, at their best. He was the next one, he was the next number one, before he got injured, he was there, he was that level."

Talking about what had happened earlier in the season when his return was pushed back, Green wrote:

"We had the idea of getting him to Indian Wells and Miami, so we kept him on hard in January and February which was pretty good, but he had a little bit of discomfort, a little bit of pain in the wrist. So we shelved Miami, and then that’s when we got on the clay. We were on the clay from March, April all the way through to now."

Turning his attention to next year, Green explained:

"He’s fresh, he’s ready, he’s fit and he’s pain-free. With another really big training block in November and December, I think he will be at another level by Australia. He will have full power and be even stronger, fitter, and faster than ever before.

He’s never really done a strength program scientifically, so we’ve done a lot of strength work in order to make him much more explosive. I think he’s going to end up looking a little different than before, although maybe not dramatically. It’s not going be dramatic, but people will say: ‘Hey, he looks strong’. Everyone around is starting to notice this body is changing."