Dominic Thiem slumped out of the Australian Open

Third seed Dominic Thiem slumped out of the Australian Open in lacklustre fashion yesterday, complaining of undisclosed physical issues after being thrashed 6-4, 6-4,6-0 in the fourth round by Grigor Dimitrov. "A combination of some little physical issues, plus a real bad day, plus the fact that he's a great player ... a result like that can happen," Thiem said. "I'm not a machine, sometimes I would like to be, but there are really, really bad days. As soon as you're not 100% at this level, then results like this come up, and that's exactly what happened today."