Jannik Sinner has admitted the physical issues that have hampered his season may rear their ugly head again.<\/p>\n
The Italian returned to the semi-finals of Wimbledon<\/a> after a straight-set win over Jan-Lennard Struff on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old battled through temperatures around 30C but didn\u2019t look in any discomfort physically against the big-hitting German.<\/p>\n After winning all five of this year\u2019s Masters 1000 titles, Sinner was the overwhelming favourite to win his first Roland Garros crown.<\/p>\n But when he was a game away from beating Juan Manuel Cerundolo in round two at the French Open<\/a>, the heat got to him and Sinner eventually lost in five sets.<\/p>\n Jannik Sinner warned he\u2019s given Novak Djokovic a major boost already at Wimbledon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Jannik Sinner left at \u2018tremendous disadvantage\u2019 at Wimbledon as John McEnroe calls for rule change<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n The four-time major winner, who was also saved by a cooling break at the Australian Open after suffering a physical collapse against Eliot Spizzirri, later had medical tests to determine why this kept happening to him.<\/span><\/p>\n Before Wimbledon, the defending champion said he and his team \u201ccame to a conclusion which is very good\u201d on this matter.<\/p>\n And after his win over Struff, Sinner<\/a> was once again asked about his physical conditioning in these hot temperatures.<\/p>\n In his own court interview on Tuesday, he said, \u201cYeah, thanks for reminding me!<\/p>\n \u201cWe worked a lot, especially after Paris, trying to understand what went wrong there. We prepared ourselves in the best possible way and in any case it was a huge test today.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt really, really comfortable on the physical side today so a good step forward. Even if it would happen again, like in Paris, I hope not but if it happens again, we need to change a couple of things again.\u201d<\/p>\n Those remarks suggest that this could be an ongoing issue for Sinner, who will face either Novak Djokovic<\/a> \u2013 who beat him in five sets at the Australian Open<\/a> earlier this year \u2013 or Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n And to the rest of the ATP Tour<\/a>, this development may be music to their ears. Ergo, if you keep Sinner on court for as long as possible on a hot day, his body may fail him again.<\/p>\n But even taking sets off Sinner can prove to be a tall order.<\/p>\n EXCLUSIVE: \u2018I want Novak Djokovic to win Wimbledon \u2013 he deserves it\u2019, says iconic tennis star<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Jannik Sinner admits French Open physical struggles may not be fully solved despite Wimbledon progress<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jannik Sinner has admitted the physical issues that have hampered his season may rear their ugly head again. The Italian returned to the semi-finals of Wimbledon after a straight-set win over Jan-Lennard Struff on Tuesday. The 24-year-old battled through temperatures around 30C but didn\u2019t look in any discomfort physically against the big-hitting German. After winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Jannik Sinner News<\/strong><\/h2>\n