Jannik Sinner in shock career change as three-time Grand Slam winner, 23, releases single with Andrea Bocelli
JANNIK SINNER has swapped tennis swinging for tenor singing with his shock new music collaboration.
The world No1 tennis star, 23, has proven his ability with a racquet in hand.
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But now he will be hoping his shock new venture with Andrea Bocelli is anything but a racket.
That is because the top male singles player has dropped his very own... single.
The Australian Open and US Open champion - who served a controversial three-month doping ban earlier this year - has linked up with Italian compatriot and world-famous opera singer Bocelli, 66, to release their track.
The celebrity duo's duet Polvere e Gloria - which translates as 'Dust and Glory' in English - will be released on Friday, with a teaser video featuring the pair launched on Thursday.
Sinner says in the short clip: "In our lives there will be many first times... all you need to do is be yourself."
And the three-time major winner will be hoping he smashes it rather than double faults as he aims to hit the notes... not the nets.
Sinner follows in the footsteps of fellow tennis players Yannick Noah, Lorenzo Sonego, Denis Shapovalov and Corentin Moutet by releasing music - with the others having mixed levels of success.
surprise cameo on Match of the Day last month to bid Gary Lineker farewell.
But tennis fans could barely believe the Sinner and Bocelli link-up was genuine.
One said: "I was confused for a moment, this is not AI I guess."
Another wrote: "Wait this is real?! I need to sit with this for a bit."
A third added: "Jannik you truly suprise us."
And a final user replied: "Not on my 2025 bingo card."
Sinner suffered heartache in the epic, five-hour-29-minute French Open final as he lost to Carlos Alcaraz in dramatic fashion.
The No1 seed took the opening two sets then had three match points in the fourth set before the Spaniard's sensational comeback.
Sinner will be hoping to get revenge at Wimbledon where they could meet in another final - but Alcaraz is going for a hat-trick of grass-court crowns.
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