Paris, France , 28 July 2024 | tennis.com.au
Alex de Minaur will deal with doubles alongside Alexei Popyrin on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, after withdrawing from the singles event.
The Australian had been rehabbing a hip damage he sustained through the fourth spherical at Wimbledon.
De Minaur, the No.5 seed, was scheduled to tackle Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff in his first-round match on Sunday.
Alex de Minaur has withdrawn from males’s singles at #Paris2024, however will participate in males’s doubles alongside his childhood good friend, Alexei Popyrin 👉 https://t.co/DYr9mAONve
Alex has been rehabbing a hip damage he sustained through the fourth spherical at Wimbledon.#AllezAUS pic.twitter.com/bQBmG8D6kP
— AUS Olympic Crew (@AUSOlympicTeam) July 28, 2024
The Australian will now prioritise males’s doubles alongside his childhood good friend Popyrin.
De Minaur and Popyrin face No.4 seeds Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram (USA) of their first match.
A number of different Australian gamers will take to the courts at Roland Garros on Sunday.
Alexei Popyrin faces Nicolas Jarry, the No.16 seed from Chile, within the first spherical of the lads’s singles event.
Ajla Tomljanovic will meet Coco Gauff, the second-seeded American, in girls’s singles.
Following his exit to No.1 seed Novak Djokovic on Saturday, Ebden returns to the court docket alongside John Friends for males’s doubles.
The Australian pair meet Lebanon’s Hady Habib and Benjamin Hasssan of their opening match.
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