“What he did from 0-4 in the tiebreaker was just unreal. He just crushed the ball, everything went in from both corners…He just took it away from me.”

Spoken by Novak Djokovic, after Dominic Thiem was able to defeat one of the Big 3 to close out an incredible year.

Thiem knows now that he’ll always get tight against the Big 3, yet can beat them anyway.