ATP Finals, the comment: the tennis is winning, he can do independently

It is not possible that, just on the most beautiful and reached the world summit, Italian tennis must stop to think about its future. And it was not even imaginable that the enthusiasm for the fresh victory of Jannik Sinner in Wimbledon left place, after a few days, to the controversies. The confrontation is off the pitch, between politics and Angelo Binaghi, federal president of the sportiest sport in Italy for results and practice. A management that began in 2001, just in the same year of Sinner’s birth, and grew up exponentially. Now there is a blue phenomenon capable of revolutionizing the ritual of the summer Sundays of Italians, as happened for the Wimbledon final: we put ourselves in almost 6 million in front of the TV for hours … so yesterday it will have been incomprehensible, for the increasingly numerous people of tennis (now lower only to that of football), seeing the shiny eyes of the federal president this time not for joy, but for anger. He let himself go, without fear: “I am ready to make me aside”.

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In a country where the resignation institute is rare, this declaration seemed to paint a world that goes on the contrary: The most winning manager of Italian sport He said he was ready to get aside. Yet our tennis wins, sail in gold and therefore does not need assistance, subsidies, aid and advice. There is a desire to continue independently and this explains the reason for the contrast with politics why the recent publication of the so -called “sport decree” would force Fedentennis to share the organization of the ATP Finals. In practice, tennis would be joined by the Italian government through sports and health, a public company that deals with the development of sport itself. The result is that Binaghi, after having perhaps somatized the doubts of the ATP (the association of professional tennis), has certainly seen the risk of having to change a perfectly but already tested organizational machine in the running. He assured that next November in Turin there will be unforgettable Finals, even more beautiful, then chose to start playing uncovered cards. And he made the first move, he who is used to always making the last decision: “We have some administrative problems, we hope to solve it to make the Italians still dream. I am a man of the institutions and I do not forget the help I received. I hope everything can be solved, if the problem should be or my vision, after 25 years I can also remove the disorder and leave to space for those who can do better than me”.

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Strong words. Who have opened a heavy political-sports crisis. The hope is that the parties meet now. Binaghi has come out into the open, now we must all come out of this situation and avoid even the slightest damage to Italian tennis who – thanks also to the current management – has become an industry (including the Padel) capable of invoicing 8.1 billion euros with the budget, according to Boston Consulting Group, and to involve 18.1 million enthusiasts and 6.5 million practitioners, according to Nielsen and Toluna. Gradually a movement has been reconstructed, even with large sacrifices from the circles, subjected to more stringent rules to reach the economic rebalancing. But the same circles were put back at the center of the scene, creating a symbiosis with the central structure in the technical sector. Now we have Sinner, the number 1. We are world champions in office in office both with tennis players (Davis Cup) and with tennis players (Billie Jean King Cup). The controversies, off the pitch, must be overcome. Woe to ruin a perfect mechanism made of great skills and professionalism right now that, thanks to tennis, abroad we still speak of “Italian model”.