VIENNA: Dominic Thiem is struggling with pandemic-related "emptiness" but plans to return to the clay-court in Madrid in early May once a knee pain dissipates, he told an Austrian newspaper Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

After winning the US Open against Alexander Zverev in September, Thiem said he was full of "euphoria" but "in preparing for this season, I fell into a hole."

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