Tokyo 2020, Berrettini misses the Olympics due to injury

Muscle injury for Matteo Berrettini. The Roman tennis player, first seeded Italian and recent finalist in the Wimbledon tournament against Novak Djokovic, will thus miss the Tokyo Olympics. “Matteo Berrettini raises the white flag – writes Coni on his website – The blue tennis player must renounce participation in the Olympic Games, due to the after-effects of a muscle injury, an unwelcome legacy of the historic exploit in the Wimbledon tournament, which allowed him to become the first Italian ever to compete in the final of the prestigious London tournament. The Italia Team delegation thus amounts to 384 athletes (197 men – with Paratore ready to formally take over golf at Molinari – and 187 women): after 16 July in fact, the ITF does not allow substitutions with respect to the roster of athletes indicated by the Olympic Committees “.