When dusk fell over SW19 on Tuesday, a very real question was whether Jannik Sinner’s elbow would break his heart.
The world No 1, still recovering from the emotional annihilation of his French Open final defeat by Carlos Alcaraz, was tasked with recovering from injury in time for his Wimbledon quarter-final with Ben Shelton. And when Sinner had a shortened practice on Tuesday, one day after falling and hurting his elbow in his lucky escape against an injured Grigor Dimitrov, everyone wondered whether the Italian would play at all on Wednesday.
