Coco Gauff and Dominic Thiem have same opinion with heartbreaking Grand Slam comment

has echoed 's heartbreaking comment about becoming a Grand Slam champion.

Both players won their maiden Major titles at the US Open - Gauff doing so last year and Thiem in 2020.

It was the Austrian's only Grand Slam title and he now feels it wasn't the life-changing event he expected. While Gauff still has plenty of time to try and win more, she publicly agreed with Thiem.

Thiem became the first man born in the 1990s to win a Major when he lifted the US Open trophy four years ago. He was also the first new male Grand Slam champion since 2014.

It was a long-awaited achievement for the former world No. 3, who had lost three prior Slam finals. But he never went on to win more. Thiem suffered a season-ending wrist injury the following year and has never returned to the same heights.

He will now end his career at this week's Vienna Open. Ahead of his retirement, the 31-year-old shared the heartbreaking reality of winning a Grand Slam title. And it's a sentiment that Gauff shares.

"Honestly, when I look back, I realise that I gave it too much importance," Thiem said. "I thought it would make me happy forever, that it would change my life... but that's not how it is. It's an illusion."

Now, the 17-time title winner believes his US Open triumph doesn't define his career. He continued: "The truth is that nothing changed. And honestly, if in 20 years, I'm still here, no one will care if I was a Grand Slam champion or not.

"At that moment, I didn't think that way. I thought that if I didn't win a Grand Slam, my career wouldn't be good, and I would always have doubts.

"It wasn't an easy situation. It's very nice to have that trophy at home, but in the end, it's just a trophy; it shouldn't make a difference in life. That's how I see it now."

Gauff shared a graphic of Thiem's comments to her Instagram story on Sunday, writing: "Real."

The 20-year-old's journey to her first Major was different to Thiem's. The Austrian was 27 when he finally lifted a trophy in his fourth final appearance. He was also looking to end the dominance of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, who monopolised the Majors.

Meanwhile, Gauff was only 19 when she won her first Grand Slam title and was one of four different champions at the four Majors that year. But she had been competing at the top level since she was 15 and had already lost one championship match.

The American has not won another Slam since getting her first at last year's US Open but, unlike Thiem, she doesn't look set to retire for a long time.