The Austrian is "hitting" with his former coach as tennis takes a Coronavirus timeout. Dominic Thiem and former coach Gunter Bresnik are having a “hit” at one another during the tennis hiatus.
Bresnik, now a coach to Jerzy Janowicz, made disparaging remarks about Theim earlier this week, and now the Austrian has retaliated with some verbal jousting of his own.
Bresnik, who said in an interview that Thiem’s father would be no more than a club coach and Thiem a futures player without him, had worked with Thiem since the Austrian was a child (thanks to Austrian sportswriter Jannik Schneider for the translation and tweets).
Former lifetime coach/manager Günter Bresnik with harsh words about family Thiem via austrian agency APA
"(…)You cant do that to someone that you owe everything. His dad would be a clubcoach and Dominic a futures player without me"
Full translation👇 #thiem pic.twitter.com/gnoa2IqV6r
— Jannik Schneider (@schnejan) March 31, 2020
Thiem has responded to those comments, saying “When he complains about a lack of respect, and says that I owe it all to him, and seriously suggests that I would have been a futures player without him, I have to ask whether he has developed delusions of grandeur.”
Thiems public answer to Bresnik via APA (cc @ZahrerLukas tweeted it in 🇩🇪)
„Its deporable, that he always blames my family and me in public for whatever reason after we worked succesfully for so many years."
Full translation👇👇 #thiem https://t.co/9e5NRDvXya pic.twitter.com/wqdqm3oKJX
— Jannik Schneider (@schnejan) April 1, 2020
“I did not part ways with him without a reason,” Thiem, who parted ways with Bresnik in 2019, added. “Bresnik knows the reasons and at this time I won’t make them public.”
