In the preview of an Intesa San Paolo-Sky interview, “Jannik beyond tennis, Sinner tells his story”spread on social media, the No. 1 in world tennis explains to Federico Ferri the concept of professionalism and the limits that this imposes on his life as a 23-year-old boy. Among these also that of perhaps giving up on returning home, to Sesto, more often: “I have never changed as a person, success has never changed me and it has not changed how I treat the people in front of me, the ones I meet. That What changes is that I have a little less free time. Because I am a person who dedicates all his time to work. So it’s up to me. If I want to go home tomorrow, I can go there, but I don’t want to because of my career it started when I left at 13 and a half Maybe I go 3-4 times a year, but only to see my parents and my grandparents. With grandparents you never know how it will end.” But they are still fundamental: “When I see the mountains, the streets I know, the slopes, everything, I feel at home. Because there I feel free, but all the people know me not for who I am now but for who I was before”.
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Sinner: “I will play another fifteen years”
Sinner doesn’t want to stop improving: “It’s precisely time that one has to continue to work and improve because there are all the players who want to chase you. I’ll play for another 15 years, let’s hope that my body holds up. It’s thought that 15 years is a long time, but it’s not like that because for example I arrived here in the same hotel and in the same room and I said to myself ‘this year has gone by really fast’. We are trying to make all the choices to continue playing for as long as possible but we can’t even throw away time because it’s a nice balance of improvement, working, the desire to win, having the people you want around you who can help you.” On the Davis Cup finals, Sinner keeps an incredibly low profile: “There is still the Davis Cup to play this year, I’m very happy… if the captain calls me up.”
The anecdote: “I was playing the intercom prank on a neighbor”
About his childhood, Sinner told a funny anecdote: “When I was in Sesto I stopped by a neighbor’s house. When we were little with my friends we went there to play and ran away, but one day he caught us. This gentleman who is now 85 years old told me ‘I still remember when you used to come and play’. These are precisely the beautiful things that give me the strength to continue. It doesn’t take long for me, two days and I’m back to 100% and can work again.”
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