Dear Aldo,
24 Slams. Novak Djokovic played an extraordinary US Open final. Dominating, knowing how to suffer in the 2nd set and then spreading in the 3rd set. 6-3 7-6 6-3 to Daniil Medvedev. Reached Margaret Court, who won her 24th in Ny in 1973. Infinite champion! The Serbian “hammer”, however, should have avoided making fun of Ben Shelton, mimicking the American’s celebration, pretending to answer the phone and forcibly throwing down the receiver. Federer would not have mocked the 21-year-old semi-finalist from Atlanta.
Pietro Mancini
Dear Peter,
It’s true, Federer wouldn’t have done it. But behind that gesture is all Djokovic. The need to have an enemy. The need to feel that one has been wronged and to react to: in this case the obvious support of the New York public for an American tennis player. To win in tennis you have always needed to be a fighter, a fighter, with a strong competitive sense. So was Federer himself, in his elegance. It is Rafael Nadal at the highest level. But no one has the ferocity of the Serbian wolf (he himself indicated the wolf as his totem animal, ever since he met one in the woods of his childhood, as he told the Corriere). In him, his sense of fighting, his competitive determination and his mental strength are combined with a unique talent in playing decisive points better than normal ones. If you have to cancel an opponent’s match point, you will hardly play a short ball; if you do, you won’t come up short enough, for fear of making a mistake, and you’ll end up handing the point to your opponent; instead Djokovic’s ball will be particularly short. Some data to confirm it, taken from his comparisons with Federer. The two have met fifty times, and have played 210 sets. Federer won 108, Djokovic 102. But out of twenty decisive sets, on which the outcome of the match depended, Djokovic won fifteen, Federer only five. The two greats played five decisive tiebreaks: the Serbian wolf won them all. Five finals of a Grand Slam tournament: 4 to 1 for Djokovic. Which also leads in the total calculation, 27 to 23. Result: Federer was certainly better looking, perhaps bigger. But Djokovic was stronger. And he still is.
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«An anti-Southern feeling still exists»
I am referring to the case of the death of the young Neapolitan musician. I agree that we need to eradicate the culture of Camorra, silence and violence. However, it is much more difficult to eradicate the anti-state culture. Because, while the first three arguments are aimed at a segment of society that is at least criminal, the anti-State sentiment is widespread throughout almost all of society. I am not Italian, but I know Italy deeply and I am very attached to its culture. I am a Southerner and when I discuss the Southern question with Italians, in Lombardy or Veneto, where I often go, I realize that a strong feeling of pure racism towards everything that smacks of the South shines through in the speeches that my interlocutors give me. they do. Knowing that they are speaking to a foreigner, they have no restraint in expressing themselves. The more cultured and educated the Southerner is, the more he is able to sense this poorly concealed contempt. I know this aspect well: anti-Semitism is alive in many parts of the Western world and I sense the racism of those around me in the air, when I meet them, from small nuances, from half-words said but which were not meant, even by nods or small, well-hidden grimaces. The southerner, and not just the Neapolitan, be it a university professor or orchestra director, feels very well that his interlocutor from Treviso, who perhaps only attended middle school, treats him down. Yes, we must dedicate ourselves to eradicating the culture of Camorra and violence in the South, but, in my opinion, we must work hard to eradicate the contempt of the North, otherwise nothing will change.
Daniel Mimun, Netanya (Israel)
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