Jannik Sinner leads blue quartet for Paris 2024
The blue men’s tennis team at the Paris Olympics
It will be Jannik Sinner, Matteo Arnaldi, Luciano Darderi and Lorenzo Musetti who will make up the blue team at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the tennis tournament to be played on the courts of Roland Garros from July 27 to August 4. Determining the officially qualified players è was the Race to Paris, that is, the special ranking that takes into account the results of the last 52 weeks and will end with the conclusion of the Paris Slam on January 9.
The officialdom of the Italian quartet, as reported by "Il Corriere dello Sport", è came following the eliminations from the Paris tournament by Lorenzo Sonego and Flavio Cobolli, defeated by Chinese Zhizhen Zhang and Danish Holger Rune, respectively, thus seeing the possibility of climbing up the rankings and snatching qualification fade away for good.
Firmly at the top of the Race and already qualified for the Olympic Games with 8,825 points there è Jannik Sinner. Lorenzo Musetti, a few hours before the challenge with Djokovic, è firmly the second best Italian with 1290 points. In third place there è Matteo Arnaldi, who thanks to the feat with Rublev è climbed to 1220. Luciano Darderi closes the quartet with 1126 points.
However, Flavio Cobolli remains on early alert, who è the first of the repechageables in case of a forfeit of one of the four starters already qualified.