Jannik Sinner stuns fans by announcing jaw-dropping new career endeavour

Tennis champion Jannik Sinner has shocked fans by announcing a new career move, despite being the World No.1.

Jannik Sinner has announced a song with famous tenor Andrea Bocelli. Image: Getty/Instagram

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.

But now he will be hoping his shock new venture with Andrea Bocelli is anything but a racket, The Sun reports.

That is because the top male singles player has dropped his very own … single.

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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.”

Jannik Sinner has announced a song with famous tenor Andrea Bocelli. Image: Getty/Instagram

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.

Bocelli, meanwhile, memorably sang at Leicester City’s 5,000-1 Premier League title coronation for his friend Claudio Ranieri – and then made a 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.”

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Picture: Giovanni De Sandre / Supplied.

A third added: “Jannik you truly surprise 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.

This article originally appeared in the The Sun and was reproduced with permission