Two blue excellences meet at the Foro Italico: “Jannik wishes me. I will come back when everything is in place”
The number one meets the number one. Federica Brignone, still with crutches after the terrible injury to the Italian championships in early April, grants himself a day of relaxation at the Foro Italico, where he had never been. Relax so to say: between one game and another, between one training and another, always as a spectator interested, he takes advantage of the players’s gym for some scheduled exercise. But the afternoon highlight is the appointment with Sinner before the Jannik training session dedicated to preparing the debut match against Navone: the winner of the World Cup and the strongest player of world tennis, who returns to the field after three months of disqualification, two icons of Italian sport and two symbols of the best part of our country.
the invitation
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Federica and Jannik embrace each other, speak dense, then the ski champion sits in the stands and witnesses a part of the training. Later, Fede will reveal the content of the dialogues with the n.1 of the world: “I have always been a fan of Jannik, it is an inspiration, I admire his extraordinary mental force. He asked me how he is proceeding with the injury and he made me the best wishes. Solidity. but since I also had a former skier in front of him, I invited him to spend a day with me on the snow when I will be healed, it would be a great honor “. In recent days, Brignone revealed that during convalescence, when he could not move from the home sofa except for physiotherapy, he followed the whole Montecarlo tournament on TV and that it had to stop at the moment with tennis, inserted once a week in its training routine. But how is the tennisse faith? “Tennis is a completely different sport than skiing, if you make a shot you can recover in the next one, in skiing if you make a mistake even one curve you lose the race. Playing tennis is very useful to me because it refines the glance and requires very rapid lateral movements, as happens also in the snow. I am an attack player, I don’t like to tempore, perhaps it is not the ideal tactic but it reflects my character”.
recovery
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But the Roman event of the winner of the World Cup and the Giant World gold did not limited herself to the meeting with Sinner: she witnessed the winning match of Berrettini and then met him in the Lounge Players and also had the opportunity to exchange a few words with Jasmine Paolini. “I had met him a few years ago at a tournament in Courmayeur, I like it for his always positive attitude, for his extraordinary will”. From a personal point of view, these are the days that separate Federica from an important step in her recovery path: “In a week I will return to support the left leg, it seems incredible as our body reacts to an injury but in practice I have to almost learn to walk again. The injury was very tough, but I accepted it: I do not in a hurry, you will see me on the track only when I will be sure. time”.
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