Carreno Busta out of singles at Paris 2024, Pedro Martinez in

Pablo Carreno Busta has withdrawn from the singles event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games due to the right leg injury that forced him to skip Wimbledon.

The 32-year-old – who won the men’s singles bronze medal for Spain at Tokyo 2020 – had hoped for another memorable result at the upcoming Games on 27 July - 4 August, but has restricted his participation to the doubles event alongside Marcel Granollers.

He will be replaced in the singles draw by Pedro Martinez, who was unfortunate not to qualify for Spain in the first place having ranked inside the world’s top 50 at the ranking cut-off on 10 June (only for Spain to have already exceeded its quota of players in the singles draw).

Martinez is set for his Olympic debut and joins Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the men’s singles event for Spain.

For Carreno Busta, who has picked up a muscle tear in the adductor of his right leg, it is the latest setback after spending much of the past 18 months on the sidelines following elbow surgery.

He dropped outside the world’s top 1000 as a result but used his protected ranking of No. 18 to enter the singles event at Paris 2024, hoping to emulate the highs he achieved at Tokyo 2020.

On his Olympic debut, he stunned Novak Djokovic to win the bronze medal at Tokyo 2020, a feeling he then-described as ‘even more incredible than winning a tournament’.

Eight tennis players will represent Spain in total at the Games – with Sara Sorribes and Cristina Bucsa also competing in the women’s event – although the headline draw is the doubles pairing on everyone’s lips – the partnership between Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz.

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