Bublik: “Sinner is very strong. After tennis I move to Italy”

The madid who serves from below but also to 220kmh, the strange guy with the tattoos who has a velvet hand but a year ago was about to stop playing. The eternal promise that after Indian Wells took three days in Las Vegas to unplug. All this and much more is Alexander Bublik. As a boy, everyone looked to him as one who would make a fool, powerful and technical. But genius and unrelativeness in today’s tennis do not go too fashionable. And now, at the dawn of the 28 years it is considered the loose threatening of Wimbledon. The one who showed Halle’s grass against Sinner was impressive. The number 1 in the world said about that match: “On the break balls I have not seen the ball”, an accelerator of the breakdown a few days ago with panici and badio. On the terrace of the All England Club arrives exhausted, after a fire in a row of interviews that it is not so accustomed so much. Certainly it would do without it, but it is the consequence of its wicked actions, such as beating Jannik Sinner.

Alexander, she is the only one in addition to Alcaraz to beat Jannik since the beginning of the year. And in addition to the grass …

“Yes, but in Paris he played them. Anyway, excuse me.”

“Excuse me (says it in Italian, editor’s note) that I have beaten your number 1 … I put concentration, intensity, and when I serve well it is difficult to overcome me. But Halle is different from a Slam and Jannik is very strong. Of course, if we look only at the numbers and we see that in a year he has lost only from Alcaraz and from me, he makes a certain impression. If he should happen for another year, then I would feel.”

Perhaps she doesn’t know, but she has a great group of fans in Italy.

“I am happy, I love Italy very much. And his food. Here at home we have an Italian chef who cooks wonderful things. Yesterday he made a lasagna, but without pasta, only with aubergines, cheese and tomato”.

Will he be a Parmigiana?

“Yes, here’s what it’s called! Very good. Maybe not the ideal before taking the field …”.

A year ago he meditated to leave tennis, thank goodness he changed his mind or it would not be here in Wimbledon to eat Parmesan.

“Yes, but it’s not that I wanted to stop playing. They didn’t understand me. Simply after Wimbledon last year I would not have had points to defend. I would have taken some time to stay at home, with the family to train well and recover energy and then I would have returned more loaded”.

First more than his results made his shows news, between split rackets and funambolic play, now finally the scene has also taken the scene with the results and a little continuity. Is it weighed to be the center of attention?

“No, it’s part of my work. Obviously I would prefer to stay at home to eat excellent lunches with the family. But I have become great, and I know that I have to be here and answer your questions … the children look at me, I know that some, unfortunately for them, would like to be like me and therefore I have to give the good example and be professional”.

He has become a father for three years, has this helped her to be more centered?

“In reality he only increased my desire to stay at home … I seem to know what unbridled type, but I have always been a quiet type, a little slipper. Paternity has given me only more happiness”.

Who translated into better results, too. Do you feel safer now?

“But I don’t think I am a better person just because I do fun things on the pitch, or I know how to serve 200 km per hour. In general, having a talent in sport, in any sport, does not make us superior to others. I just want to be myself, a good person and a good father”.

But in short, we had come to discover up close as a tennis bad boy was made, and let’s find out by Pantofolaio?

“I try to avoid being in the tennis bubble, I like real life but I train every day, often even twice a day. Write it, because then the kids think that it is enough to stay in the pub to drink beer or on the sofa, and instead to be a professional tennis player you still need sacrifice, it is a job and should be done seriously even just to play the qualifying of a tournament”.

But do you feel among the favorites here in Wimbledon?

“What? I am a realist, I won four matches at Roland Garros (he stopped in the quarterfinals with Sinner, ed) and won Halle. I am aware of what I can do and what the level of my tennis is. But I would never say that I am the best in the world and I raised the trophy”.

What do you like more than the grass tournaments?

“That the matches are shorter, less impactful on the body, less risks of accidents”.

“In a vineyard in Tuscany to taste wine and oil, among the screws and the olive trees, I also thought of buying a house a few years ago”.

“Italy is beautiful, but close to Montecarlo for me it would be more comfortable, perhaps from the parts of Turin. You could see me there, in some old bar to drink a correct coffee”.

“No no, I wanted to say correct. Grappa, I don’t get stuck.” Prosit, Sasha.