Tokyo Olympics: Serena Williams announces she will not go to Japan

It will be without her.

Appeared in small form at the beginning of June Porte d'Auteuil, Serena Williams announces that she will not make the trip to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics (July 23-August 8).

"I am not on the Olympic list, in any case that I know ... And if I am there, I should not be there", declared this Sunday the player of 39 years from London, on the eve of the opening of the Wimbledon tournament in which she participates.

"There are many reasons why I made my decision," continued the player, refusing to detail them: "I do not really want to address them today.

Maybe another day, ”she then apologized.

What about Federer and Djokovic?

The 2012 Olympic champion, and former world No. 1, who was obviously not selected by the American Olympic Committee had anyway decided to pass the Tokyo box: "I never planned on these Games", a- she also confided.

Between the overloaded calendar of his season, his always unsuccessful quest for a 24th Grand Slam tournament and especially the very restrictive restrictions that will weigh on the athletes in Tokyo because of the Covid-19, the one that faces Aliaksandra Sasnovich on Tuesday (n ° 100 ) on the London turf apparently preferred not to take any risks.

Serena Williams is not the only world tennis star to have decided to skip the Games, since before her, Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem had already made the announcement. Doubts still persist on the participation of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.