Sinner: “Mum doesn’t see my matches, difficult months on clay”

Ultimately a flaw Jannik Sinner he discovered he really has it, despite what they say about him: “Like I don’t wash the dishes when I finish eating, I leave them there and deal with it two days later.”

Sinner: “The flaw? I don’t wash the dishes and I’m in too much of a hurry”

Speaking to some Italian newspapers, the South Tyrolean tennis player number 2 in the world talked about himself and how he is perceived: “Perhaps they went a little further on me. It seemed to me that I was doing normal things: you see one who isn’t well, you help him; you meet a child, there’s a ball, you take two shots. I don’t even think about it. It’s my way of life. On the pitch I’m serious, I do my rituals, but after the match I I like to joke. I’m like this, I’ve always been like this: the difference is that now I have more cameras on me, more attention. And everything is amplified. But let’s not exaggerate, come on…”.

Defects, he said to himself: “I get angry too, as it should be. But in life you have to understand the moments: there is a time to joke, a time to get angry, a time to be serious. My flaw in tennis, for example, is that sometimes I’m in too much of a hurry: I want to learn everything straight away. But I’ve also understood that, if I hurry, I lose clarity in my mind and that situation, instead of helping me, screws me over.”

Sinner and the red earth: “I expect difficult months, mother won’t come”

Now, the clay season starts in Monte Carlo and Sinner is not so optimistic: “Everything changes: difficult but also interesting months await me. It’s not the surface I’m most comfortable on.” Perhaps, in addition to the followers, the number of familiar faces following will increase: “At Indian Wells I invited my best friend: he saw that, win or lose, I am still the boy he met at school”. The family, however, will not be there: “Mum still doesn’t watch the games because she gets nervous, and if I call her she often doesn’t answer because she’s busy.” But “Winning has a weight, but the most important thing is the affections”.

Sinner and the Olympics: “those who live for the Games must carry the flag”

Be a flag bearer at the Olympics? No, thanks: “The flag must be carried by those who base their career on the Olympics. Then if they want to give it to me, I’m happy but as a tennis player I have the four Slams, the nine Masters 1000, the Davis Cup… For me the Olympics are a tournament, one more. For others it’s the tournament. I read an interview with Usain Bolt in which he said: I train for four years to run one hundred meters in nine seconds. It struck me.”