Jannik Sinner Addresses Health Tests, Climate Concerns and Prize Money Protest Ahead of Wimbledon Title Defence

Jannik Sinner arrived at Wimbledon as champion and spent his first press conference on three subjects that were not his backhand. Health tests, the temperature players are being asked to compete in, and a prize-money protest that has split the locker room all made the transcript before anyone asked about his opener.

He was careful. The tests, he said, are part of the job and he will meet them. The heat is not theoretical on a Centre Court afternoon. The money argument is one he would rather the tours settled without making the players the story of the first week.

Then he went to practise. The defence starts when the ball is in play. The noise around it has already started.