The former n.9 ready to say stop: “I dreamed of winning the international … what a joy you come back on Nadal to the US Open 2014”
See you Rome. As a husband and affectionate father, or by the inspirer of the new generations. But no longer as a player. Fabio Fognini, who begins tomorrow against the British Fearnley, will play the internationals for the last time, 20 years after the first, and in the coming months he will say goodbye to tennis after having dedicated 30 years of life: “It was right that I announced in Rome, the tournament I loved most. And to think that at the beginning it was a tormented relationship, but only because I wanted to give too much people. I put, he understood that I have always been myself, without fictions. But in the eternal city, it is also right to let go of immortal memories, to the success in Montecarlo in 2019 and the top ten, companies that have given the abstract to the explosion of Italian tennis: “I am pleased to have been in a certain sense the forerunner of the blue Renaissance, and I am proud of what I got, as a child I would never even have dreamed of him. Crossing the whole epic of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic and I did time to face Sinner and Alcaraz.
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The victory in comeback from two sets below Nadal at the US Open 2014 remains one of the greatest deeds of Italian sport: “If not the most beautiful, it is the most iconic victory: reassembling two sets in Rafa in a Slam is not banal … that time I did the Federer”. And although he still feels player, Fabio already has clear ideas for the future: “In Italy we live a magical moment, behind Sinner and Musetti there are many other young people with the potential to get up. Sometimes they braked me, so maybe they will be able to avoid them. ” Fognini the old essay: because there is a time for everything.