Welcome to Sinnerlandia, the place where the professionalism of the new Slam champion prevails over any temptation of the land of toys. The gap seems closed even though there is only 40 km between Montecarlo, where he prepares for the tournaments, and Sanremo. A rethink would be needed, an inversion that is not part of Jannik’s character, not surprisingly the president of Federtennis Angelo Binaghi, who with minister Abodi accompanied the champion to the first institutional commitment of these very intense 72 hours in Rome (tomorrow at the Quirinale from Mattarella, together with Davis’ team: the president will be given a racket engraved with the date of the feat, 26/11/2023), on the issue he says: «If Jannik went to the Festival it would be a disappointment: everyone would go, but he is It’s different.”
He is so different that he calmly disembarked from the Emirates flight that brought him back to Rome from Australia with his short-sighted glasses (he doesn’t like flying with contact lenses), he walked through the madness of Fiumicino with a slouching step, the Australian Open cup inside a green cloth; he rested at the Cavalieri Hilton in Monte Mario, above the Foro Italico, where a rock star security service was set up. “Sinner must be protected by everyone, if we want to write a different story: I’ll go bare-chested, if necessary” underlines Binaghi, who was in Melbourne, experienced the triumph up close and looks with the eyes of Scrooge McDuck who the doubloons count with the surge in pre-sales of the Internazionali d’Italia and ATP Finals (today +301% compared to the same week in 2023), the fiefdoms destined for the enfant du pays.
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He likes Sinner like crazy, he’s happy about it but he doesn’t intend to derogate from himself. “I just have to play tennis,” he told us as soon as he beat Medvedev in Melbourne, today he will be the protagonist (along with Binaghi) of a crowded press conference in the Federation, then he will have his photograph taken at the Colosseum, the iconic monument which last night, while they took him to Palazzo Chigi, he looked with the eyes of an enchanted teenager (he asked to see the Trevi Fountain but protocol did not allow it). This is how he does it: he counts the hours that separate him from the court, during the journey he enjoys the landscape but his head is always there: on tennis. Very few concessions: last night, for example, he had dinner in his room.
It will take a miracle to bring Jannik to where he doesn’t feel like he belongs, Amadeus understood this and spoke bitterly on Tg1: “There is someone who advises you not to come but we will always root for you”. Immediately after the Quirinale, a private flight will take him to Nice. Coach Vagnozzi is alerted: training on Friday, the fun is over.
2024-01-31 06:28:08
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