Jannik’s first outing at the Australian Open: “I look for happiness in the little things and in the people I love”
Sinner who plays cards, Sinner who races karts, Sinner who plays (no, not as well as tennis) golf. Because beyond the number 1 in the world who wins a lot, who arouses envy among those who have not reached his level despite having the talent (right, Kyrgios?) and even among those who have won everything (right, Nole?), there is a boy looking for serenity.
Wada’s appeal to the Tas is still pending, it finds its way into Sinner’s mind, into people’s conversations, into the curiosity of the media, into the chatter of the locker room. To avoid getting overwhelmed, then, there is only one recipe: “Doing things that give me joy, especially at this moment, helps me. And it also helps me to be surrounded by people I know and who know me well, who care about me as a person as well as a tennis player.” A face of himself that he also wanted to show through social media, a tool he rarely uses but which has inevitably become part of his work: “Alex (Meliss, ed.) is with me who manages this part, and I trust him a lot Obviously we decide together what to show and what not, for me it is important to find joy in what I do.”
NO CONTROVERSY
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Even so, we tolerate the controversies in which he wisely does not allow himself to be dragged: “I don’t think I have to respond to what Nick or others say, because I know I haven’t done anything wrong. Djokovic said that if he thinks about me he gets skiing in mind, maybe because he skied in the past…”. The Red Fox knows how to move between the narrow stakes of provocations, he remains silent and works. With his head down as always: “Since last year, when I won my first Slam here, many things have changed. On and off the court. In the last 12 months there have been many first times, many new things that I have learned. But I think that at 23 there are still many things I can grow and gain experience in.” Tas permitting: “I know as much as you do. There’s nothing new. It would be nice to be able to tell you that it’s a situation I don’t think about, it’s obviously in my mind and I’ve had to live with it for quite some time. But I can’t do nothing, just prepare for this Slam taking care of every detail. The details make the difference.”
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