It took him a while to get going — in fact, almost too long — but Dominic Thiem picked up his first Grand Slam title on Sunday night.
Thiem, after dropping into a 2-0 hole early, rallied all the way back to beat Alexander Zverev in a fifth-set tiebreak to win the US Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The win, which took more than four hours, marks the first time an Austrian has ever won the US Open. Thiem is also the first to ever come back from two sets down in a US Open singles final to win, and the first men’s Grand Slam champion who was born in the 1990s.