Alex de Minaur has been pressured to withdraw from the Olympics for the second consecutive time.
The Australian star suffered a extreme hip harm on match level of his Wimbledon fourth spherical win, which pressured him to cancel his quarter-final blockbuster with Novak Djokovic, and he has didn’t get well in time.
He was beforehand pressured to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 after contracting COVID-19.
De Minaur was scheduled to play German Jan-Lennard Struff within the first spherical on Sunday evening (AEST), and was the fifth seed for the match.
Nonetheless, de Minaur stays within the doubles draw, partnering with Alexei Popyrin and set to face American fourth seeds Justin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram within the first spherical.
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