Thiem ends 2022 season after Vienna defeat, won't take qualifying wildcard for Paris Masters

Dominic Thiem won't play this year anymore as the Austrian opted against playing the Paris Masters qualifiers.

Thiem probably thought that he would get the main draw in Paris which would have made far more sense for him than to play the qualifiers. The Austrian's goal was to enter the top 100 before the end of the year and playing in Paris would have given him that but he surprised many by rejecting the wild card after losing to Medvedev in Vienna.

He was initially signed up to play a challenger event after Paris as well which indicates that this was a sudden shift in plans for Thiem who will finish somewhere outside of the top 100 after a recent surge of impressive results in recent weeks.

He explained that his focus is on next year:

"We decided that I would focus fully on preparation; I'll finish at 100, 101 or 102. It should work out under normal circumstances. I want to get out there as a machine. That's the only goal. Due to the wrist injury, I've never really been able to do the combination of tennis and fitness training. That will take me further."