Jannik Sinner will travel to the Olympics as one of the outstanding favourites to win the singles gold medal, having enjoyed a historic 2024 which has seen him become the new world number one.
The Italian has stunned with his all-action and supremely efficient brand of tennis, and impressed particularly on the clay courts despite going into Roland Garros with a clear injury.
Now seeking redemption at that very same site, the competition has arguably never been so fierce, given this is the tournament that everybody wants to win due to its mystique.
However, as has frustratingly been the case with a few of the major events this year, Sinner might actually go into it hampered.
Will Jannik Sinner now travel to Paris for the Olympics?
That is what is being reported by Italian outlet ANSA, who have actually revealed that Jannik Sinner will not travel to Paris today for the Olympics as planned.
Instead now opting to fly out on Thursday, this delay is attributed to another illness, with the 22-year-old reportedly suffering from a fever.
Given his Wimbledon run was cut short due to a stomach bug, it seems that Sinner just cannot catch a break at the moment.
With the games officially starting on Friday, and the tennis commencing just a day later, this will not give the young superstar a huge portion of time to prepare for a return to the clay courts after such a short but intense grass-court season.
Meanwhile, Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal have been pictured training at Roland Garros already, as two of his biggest competitors for that coveted singles trophy.
Jannik Sinner will want Roland Garros redemption at the Olympics
As aforementioned, Sinner will be desperate to get revenge over Carlos Alcaraz in particular at the Olympics, given he will return to the place where he was dumped out in the semi-finals by the eventual winner.
With the 2024 Australian Open winner already having one Grand Slam title to his name, his maiden at that level, had he won in Paris his monopoly over the game would have been blatantly clear.
But, finally usurped by his Spanish rival, the 21-year-old has now roared back as inarguably the most in-form player going into the Olympics.
Surrendering a two-sets to-one lead over Alcaraz in their French Open clash, he was so close to a final showdown with Alexander Zverev and a chance at cementing his place in history.
Fortunately, and unlike most other years, he will now get the chance to return to Paris to enact revenge. That is, if he can shake this latest illness.
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