Olympia Tokyo 2020: Philipp Kohlschreiber benefits from the cancellations of Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem

French Open semi-finalists Alexander Zverev, Jan-Lennard Struff and Dominik Koepfer had already been confirmed as German starters in the singles in Tokyo due to their world ranking position. After numerous rejections, Kohlschreiber, who had already participated in the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, also stepped into the field thanks to his so-called “Protected Ranking”. Each nation may send a maximum of four players into the race individually.

First of all, the Grand Slam highlight at Wimbledon is on the program for Kohlschreiber from Monday. Traveling to London “with good feelings”, he said: “I’ve been getting better and better over the last few weeks. I hit the ball well again in Halle.” Kohlschreiber is playing for the 16th time in the All England Club, in the first round he will meet the Canadian Denis Shapovalov, who is tenth.

Kohlschreiber is not yet thinking about the end of his career – at least under normal circumstances. “As long as I am allowed to play in the big tournaments and win matches, I don’t really see any reason to stop,” he said: “But it is also clear that there will be a fourth or fifth corona wave in autumn, that’s probably it for me.”

(SID)