The great ex after Jannik’s no to the finals: “I don’t understand when he talks about difficult choices. He has to play tennis, not go to war”
“It’s a big slap in the face of the Italian sporting world.” Nicola Pietrangeli, captain in the Davis Cup success of ’76, does not approve of Sinner’s no to the blue shirt for the Bologna Finals. “I don’t understand when he talks about a difficult choice” explained to Ansa Pietrangeli, who in Davis has collected 164 appearances in total (110 in singles and 54 in doubles) with 120 victories (78 in singles and 42 in doubles). “He has to play tennis, not go to war. When I get the Davis Cup I get excited because the aim of an athlete is to wear the blue shirt. But unfortunately I’m talking about another era”, added Pietrangeli, who had already expressed criticism of Sinner in the past, but who last year had recognised: “He is the greatest Italian tennis player ever”.
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Pietrangeli then concluded: “I hope that during Davis he doesn’t go and play somewhere else… Today the world is too full of money. They leave the heart aside…”. The Davis Cup Finals (won in 2023 and 2024 by the Azzurri) are scheduled in Bologna from 18 to 23 November, Italy will debut on the 19th in the quarter-final against Austria. Captain Filippo Volandri has called up Lorenzo Musetti, Flavio Cobolli and Matteo Berrettini, as well as doubles players Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori.