In Vienna, where he will make his debut tomorrow, the world number 2 explains his choice: “It’s important to start well in 2026, one more week, it changes”
Jannik Sinner has arrived in Vienna where he will make his debut in the ATP 500 against Altmaier on Wednesday. A tournament, the one in the Austrian capital, to which he is very attached, among the first to grant him a wild card at the beginning of his career. The topic of the Davis Cup and his decision not to make the national team available for 2025 was immediately at the center of the media day of the 500 tournament: “I won the Davis Cup twice – he said, when asked by the press -. With my team we decided this way because the season at the end of the year is very long and I need an extra week of break to start my preparation first. The objective is to start again in the best possible way in Australia”.
Where he won in both 2024 and 2025, despite the long season: “In the last two years I didn’t get to the top because there was little time – he underlined -, so we made this decision”. Jannik also focused on his participation in the Six Kings Slam, which he won for the second time with a huge prize: “We know why we play there, it’s not a secret. But we shouldn’t lose the reason why we play: I have a great passion for tennis, I enjoy it. Saudi Arabia is important for the future: it can give us a lot, also as a fan base. The best have played there to present tennis as a product in the best possible way. Everything here.”
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A choice that was in the air, floated on a few occasions, but which until the end was hoped would not come: “The important thing is to start well in 2026, an extra week of preparation changes. It’s a difficult choice to give up Davis, having already won it twice has had its weight.” A choice that was not easy and which does not detract from his attachment to the blue shirt: “I feel fully Italian” he underlined to the Austrian media who pulled him by the jacket, insisting on the proximity of his Sesto to the border: “It’s a six-hour drive. This is a tournament that has helped me a lot: I started here, two years ago I won, so it’s a special event”.
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