Tennis, Cahill on Sinner: “My future? Ask him”

Darren Cahill helped Jannik Sinner to win Wimbledon, but now he has lost the right to decide on his future. “Ask him,” he said with a smile, before Simone Vagnozzi sitting next to him gave him an appointment at the next Wimbledon. The Australian who thinks of leaving the staff of the new king of Slam on the grass after the season will now have to deal directly with Sinner, who has won a bet between the two linked to the victory here in London. But of this goal, that he brought that boy taken three years ago when “he had never won a match on the grass” to win the London Slam is a medal that the coach is pinned on his chest.

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“I think happy does not make the idea of how I feel after these three years – he said -. When we started I thought he had a good game for grass: for how he moved, as he served. And once he began to feel comfortable on this surface, things changed quickly: that first year he pushed Novak to the limit in the quarterfinals, going on a couple of sets. Happy I don’t think it is enough to tell what Jannik has managed to get in the last two years.

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Cahill says that the team stopped talking about the Paris final 24 hours later, focusing on errors and improvements, which when she saw Jannik in training on Monday before Wimbledon understood that things could be fine. And then he tells a nice anecdote: after the first set won by Alcaraz, Vagnozzi told him that he could be a good sign, since Carlos had conquered him in the same way that Jannik won the first in Paris. “But I didn’t see it in the same way,” said the Australian coach with a smile.

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To make him understand that he was wrong, Jannik thought about it, reminding him with that triumph in the three subsequent sets that Wimbledon handed over to him how special it is. “Jannik is a good boy, he always has a smile in his face, the person you see concentrated and attentive to the details in the field, it is not the same one we see outside: he is a fun and adorable boy, who jokes all the time and loves the company of those around him. Cucina, he makes messages, makes a lot of mistakes that we always laugh about. Carlos are doing what they are doing. This is why Sinner is more peaceful now that he has won the bet and can decide of Cahill’s future.