Three-time Grand Slam champion Sinner, a 23-year-old from South Tyrol who returned in time for Roland Garros after serving a three-month doping ban, has been drawn against world number 94 and fellow Italian Luca Nardi, a 21-year-old from Pesaro in the Marche region, in the first round.
Sinner could then face American Tommy Paul in the last 16, compatriot Lorenzo Musetti in the quarterfinals, either Djokovic or Britain’s Jack Draper, the number four seed, in the semi-finals and world number two and five-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz, who is also the reigning two-time Wimbledon champion, in the final.
Revenge against the Spaniard would be sweet for Sinner, who held four match points in the fourth set in Paris before losing 10-2 in the fifth-set tie-break.
Meanwhile, Sinner announced the end of his collaboration with athletic trainer Marco Panichi and physiotherapist Ulises Badio, both of whom joined the Italian’s camp after the dismissal of Umberto Ferrara and Giacomo Naldi following the accidental contamination case involving the banned steroid clostebol.
Panichi and Badio, who had previously worked extensively with Novak Djokovic, joined Sinner’s team in September 2024.
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