Federer, Nadal congratulate Thiem on ‘illustrious career’
pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/roger-federer/f324/overview'Roger Federer/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/rafael-nadal/n409/overview'Rafael Nadal/a took to social media Tuesday following a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/dominic-thiem/tb69/overview'Dominic Thiem/arsquo;s loss at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/vienna/337/overview'Erste Bank Open/a to congratulate the Austrian on his retirement./p
pldquo;An illustrious career comes to a close,rdquo; Federer wrote in an Instagram story. ldquo;Congratulations Domi.rdquo;/p
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p lang="en" dir="ltr"It's not goodbye. It's see you later ????a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DankeDomi?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#DankeDomi/a | a href="https://twitter.com/ErsteBankOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@ErsteBankOpen/a a href="https://t.co/keOAKBtOgJ"pic.twitter.com/keOAKBtOgJ/a/p
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pThiem won five of his seven Lexus ATP Head2Head meetings against Federer. Their lone championship clash came at the 2019 a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/indian-wells/404/overview'BNP Paribas Open/a, where the Austrian claimed his lone ATP Masters 1000 title./p
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pldquo;No matter the surface, you always found a way to beat me with your thunderous backhands,rdquo; Federer wrote. ldquo;But more importantly, you did it with grace and sportsmanship.rdquo;/p
pNadal, who won their series 10-6 (Thiem earned four clay-court victories) also posted an Instagram Story, sharing the same sentiment as many: ldquo;Danke Domirdquo;./p
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