Olympia: Zverev does not participate in mixed doubles, Siegemund and Krawietz start for Germany
Alexander Zverev will not take part in the mixed competition at the Olympic Games. Laura Siegemund and Kevin Krawietz will compete for Germany. Novak Djokovic will also attack in mixed pair skating.
by SID / tennisnet
last edit: Jul 27, 2021, 11:49 am
The German Tennis Association (DTB) announced on Monday that it had registered the duos Laura Siegemund / Kevin Krawietz (Metzingen / Coburg) and Anna-Lena Friedsam / Tim Pütz (Neuwied / Frankfurt) for the mixed competition. With the registration deadline on Tuesday, however, it became clear that only Siegemund / Krawietz made it into the main competition.
In the first round, the two of them face the third-placed Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Rajeev Ram. Siegemund already has a Grand Slam title in mixed, she won the US Open in 2016. In New York she also won doubles last year. Krawietz is two-time French Open winner in doubles with Andreas Mies from Cologne.
Zverev waives because of "enormous heat"
World number one Novak Djokovic and his partner Nina Stojanovic will meet Luisa Stefani and Marcelo Melo at the beginning. The top seeders will be the French Kristina Mladenovic and Nicolas Mahut. The mixed competition in Tokyo starts on Wednesday.
The German top player Alexander Zverev had long flirted with a start in mixed. According to the DTB, however, the fifth in the world no longer because of the "very challenging local climatic conditions with enormous heat". After all, he is already at the start in Tokyo in singles and doubles with Jan-Lennard Struff.