Tennis star Stanislas Wawrinka bares all in new shoot

Tennis star Stanislas Wawrinka has bared it all for a new shoot for ESPN The Magazine’s The Body Issue.

The French Open champ, who beat Joao Sousa in straight sets in his first round match at Wimbledon on Monday (June 29), is pictured on court with just his raquet in the hot new images.

The 30-year-old Swiss player – who defeated reigning World Number 1 Novak Djokovic on the way to the title last month – tells the magazine: “My body is for my tennis, it’s for my sport. I’m not a model at all. I don’t work out to go to the beach, I work out to play well and to do well on the court.”

He adds: “When I was younger, I was a little bit fat. I wasn’t like big-time fat, I was just overweight – maybe around when I was 13 or 14. At that time I wasn’t practicing that much, tennis was just a hobby. But it wasn’t easy to feel that way.”

Stan, who is currently ranked fourth in the world behind Britain’s Andy Murray, is back in action at SW19 later today, playing his second round match against the Domincan Republic’s Victor Estrella Burgos.

Meanwhile, we taken a look at five other fitties to look out for over the next two weeks at the grass court Grand Slam – click here to take a look.

The full Bodies We Want photo gallery will be available on ESPN.com on July 6.

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