Wimbledon, Sinner towards his debut with Kecmanovic: “It won’t be easy”. Then ‘explain’ the changes

Sinner will open the tournament as reigning champion, playing on Centrale: “For a year I’ve known that I’ll play at 1.30pm on Monday, it’s nice to be back here. I’ve already been on Centrale on Thursday, when there was no one there and I saw the pitch, all beautiful and clean. Maybe it’s even more beautiful this way, it was an emotion. Now we’ll need to start well, I know how difficult it is to go far in this tournament”.

Sinner focused on the changes in preparation, after the health problems and the surprise elimination at Roland Garros: “I don’t like to talk about what exactly we changed. From a physical point of view we changed something, we did everything together without breaks to try and feel many things. We’ll see how I react on the pitch.” And again, regarding training: “You can’t simulate 100% what you feel in a match. We’ve made changes, but not big ones. They’re details. We’re happy with what we’re doing, it’s a long process and we won’t see the results now. We’re doing our best. I feel prepared. It will be difficult, but we’re ready.”