Dominic Thiem, the world No. 3 male tennis player, reportedly said he plans to play in the Olympics in 2021 now that a tournament in his home nation of Austria will no longer overlap with the Tokyo Games.
Thiem, who skipped the Rio Olympics in order to play a lower-level ATP event in Mexico (which he then missed due to injury), was prepared to pass on the Tokyo Games in 2020, too.
The Austrian Open in Kitzbuehel, also a lower-level event, would have coincided with the Olympics this past summer. But, in next year’s schedule, the Austrian Open is the week before the Tokyo Games.