This Tuesday I landed in Tokyo.
A few hours before departure, I was looking forward to the Olympic Games after I had been thinking in the days before about the impairments we would have to suffer from Corona.
Peter Hess
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I still don't know whether we'll have to be quarantined after landing, and if so, for how long.
I still don't know how often we will be tested in Tokyo after taking six tests in Germany in the past four days.
It is also not yet clear whether we will attend the opening ceremony.
But all that has faded into the background because our German tennis team is in better shape than probably none before in the past 25 years.
Moving into the Olympic Village
The group chat between Alexander Zverev, Jan-Lennard Struff, Kevin Krawietz, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Dominik Köpfer, the supervisory team and myself has been running hot in the last few hours, and I can't wait to move into our apartment in the Olympic Village with the boys.
The last time I saw my doubles partner Kevin Krawietz was on Sunday.
In the final of the Hamburg tournament - as an opponent.
Fortunately, I and my partner Michael Venus won the Champions tie-break 10: 8 against Kevin, who played with the Romanian Horia Tecau.
So I can give him a few sayings on the flight that I would otherwise have had to hear from Kevin, since we were already 6: 3, 5: 1 ahead.
I deliberately did not inform myself about the current conditions in Tokyo because I had the feeling that it was just a waste of time.
Firstly, developments can be turned upside down very quickly; secondly, I have no influence whatsoever on the circumstances.
It comes as it comes, and we will prepare for it.
We tennis players are used to that, everywhere on the tour there are different conditions for dealing with Corona. It's a shame that no spectators can watch the matches in Tokyo. But in the end it's the Olympic tournament and we'll do our best whether someone claps or not, or whether the clapping comes off the tape as advertised.