Italy is one of the leading tennis countries today.. It organizes the Rome Masters 1000 category tournament and the ATP Finals. From 2017 to 2022 he received the promising racket players in Milan at the ‘Next Gen’ Finals and the president of the ATP is the Italian Andrea Gaudenzi.
Transalpine tennis has six players in the ‘top100’ and another 12 in the top 200. No country has so many in that range. And in the women’s category they have just played the final of the Billie Jean King Cup with Canada.
Italy only needed one flag bearer on the track and has found it in the figure of Jannik Sinner. At 22 years old, the tennis player from San Candido, a small town next to Austria, has broken many of the Italian tennis records this season.
None of his compatriots had reached 61 wins in a season since 1968. and he had not made it to the semi-finals or final of a Masters Cup either. His 10 victories against the ‘top5’ make him the best in his country also in that statistic within the Open Era.
Sinner, who filled the stands of the Alpitour in Turin with 15,000 fans in Sunday’s final with Novak Djokovic, gathered a record number of 6,500,000 viewers in front of the television.
The Italian Davis Cup team, which has missed him in the last qualifying rounds, was not in the September playoff and was not in the 2022 Final Phase when Filippo Volandri He had to rely on the injured Matteo Berrettini for the semifinals with Canadais counting on him to add the second Salad Bowl in its history.
Sinner, winner of 10 ATP titles, began to make waves when he won the ‘Next Gen’ Finals, in 2019, when he came of age. He took advantage of an invitation granted by the federation of his country. It was this that gave him a private plane from Nice on Monday to arrive to Malaga as soon as possible..
It should be remembered that Jannik has established his residence in Monte Carlo. In the Davis Cup he has only played 10 games, with a record of six victories, all of them in singles, and four defeats.
This is a team competition and what happened last week doesn’t matter.
Jannik Sinner
To find the last time he defended his country’s colors you have to go back to the 2022 group stage. On September 18 he lost his match with the Swede Mikael Ymer.
The Scandinavian is retired today, after being suspended for 18 months for skipping three anti-doping tests, and Sinner is experiencing the best moment of his career.
“What happened last week doesn’t matter because this is a team competition,” says the first Italian racket player, who acknowledges arriving tired at the end of the season: “All players are physically and mentally tired at this point. I feel ready to compete“.
Volandri, his coach, confirmed Jannik’s presence in Thursday’s individual match against Tallon Griekspoor.
2023-11-21 12:59:16
#ATP #Finals #finalist #excites #entire #country
