Sinner pushes harder after dizziness loss at French Open

Sinner ramps – Jannik Sinner says he adjusted his physical workload after feeling ill and dizzy during a French Open second-round loss, and he’s now leaning into longer gym and on-court sessions at Wimbledon. He opens against Miomir Kecmanovic on Centre Court Monday, with th

Jannik Sinner used to talk about easing up after a rough day—until Wimbledon week arrived.

Saturday at the All England Club, the No. 1 player sounded anything but done with work after the French Open. He described how he’s changed his physical workload following a second-round meltdown in Paris, when he felt ill and dizzy in a loss to Juan Manuel Cerundolo.

“I’m taking it a bit easier? Wrong,” Sinner said, speaking in English and Italian. “Much longer sessions — both in the gym and on the court. … We did everything together but without any breaks. … Now we’ll see how I react on the court.”

Sinner is preparing to defend his Wimbledon singles title. He opens on Centre Court on Monday against Miomir Kecmanovic, with the temperature expected to reach 25 C (77 F).

With Carlos Alcaraz sidelined by a wrist injury, Sinner is the leading favorite at Wimbledon—just as he was entering the tournament in Paris.

After his early exit at Roland Garros, Sinner did take a week off and then tested his body. “General tests to see health-wise how I was, to be sure that all is OK with the body, which is. All tests were really good,” he said.

Then the work resumed.

Sinner. who has struggled with heat and cramps in the past. said practice will need to look more like the conditions he expects in England. “We need to practice in hotter conditions. I feel like everywhere where we play is going to be very hot. Every year is getting warmer and warmer. It is a very important topic.”.

At the French Open, Sinner had been one game away from finishing his second-round match in straight sets. He led 5-1 in the third, but during a Paris heat wave he lost his footing to dizziness and ended up beaten by Cerundolo 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1.

He said there isn’t a quick solution to what happened. “We are happy at the moment with what we are doing. The result we’re not going to see here. It’s a long process. There’s no magic behind it.”

Sinner added that he feels prepared for the next stretch. “I’m very happy with the work we did in the last two and a half weeks,” he said. “Very long days. I feel well prepared.”

In Italian, he spoke more directly about the extended sessions while keeping the specifics close. “I don’t like to talk too much about exactly what we changed, but we changed the physical workload a bit.”

This week, Sinner also said he never planned to play warmup tournaments before Wimbledon. “If you play a tournament before here. maybe it’s not going the way you would like to. you come here with some doubts. ” he said. “If you don’t play any tournament, you don’t have these doubts, you just go and play.”.

He pointed to last year’s experience in Halle, where he lost in the second round. “I came here and I played very well,” he said. Sinner went on to beat two-time champion Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final.

Wimbledon comes with its own perks, too. As champion, Sinner received an All England Club membership.

“It’s a great honor for me,” he said. “As I’ve always said, it’s the best tournament we have, the most prestigious, and so having this thing for my whole life is very, very nice.”

He acknowledged that at 24, he may not fully appreciate it until later in his career. “Probably won’t appreciate the membership until after I retire from playing,” he said.

The storyline running through his week is simple: after feeling ill and dizzy in Paris, Sinner is responding not with fewer demands—but with more time under them, and a new test of how his body handles the heat when it matters most.

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