Cahill: “Sinner has had a virus. Now he feels better, tomorrow on the field”

The rest of the warrior is already over. “A couple of days,” Jannik Sinner promised. Today the number 1 in the world will resume the racket in hand: booked the training session of 12 hours (18 in Italy) with the Argentine Comesana. The countdown to the debut at the US Open begins. The confirmation had already arrived yesterday from the coach Darren Cahill: “Jannik is a little better. He suffered from a virus that forced him to retire Alcaraz on Monday. He took it today (yesterday, editor’s note) free and I hope that tomorrow (today, editor’s note) he can take the field and start hitting a few balls. We are confident that he will be well”. The shock retreat, after 23 minutes, in the Monday final in Cincinnati against Alcaraz had alarmed everyone. Especially for the body language shown by the sample: pale in the face, slow in movements, without strength in the arms. The in -depth exams then confirmed the initial hypothesis: a trivial virus, in fact, demonstrating that not even the bionic man enjoys immunity, especially if in inevitable contact with the caravan of the circuit, between player lounges, gyms, fields of practice. In Ohio, moreover, the extreme conditions of the climate have reaped repetition victims, so much so as to rekindle the debate on the health of the athletes in a tennis in full expansionism: eight flat -rate in the male singular (plus Zverev who completed the match with Alcaraz only for signature honor).

Walking

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No particular therapy, the most effective medicine was the zeroing of physical and mental effort. So Jannik, reached New York with a private flight, dedicated himself to idleness: strange deviation from a routine that provides work, work and only work. Already in the post-match of Cincinnati, to the truth, the thoughts of the above-tall were aimed at the Slam to be defended: “I can’t wait to play the US Open. I have some points on which I have to grow if I want to go far, in particular the service and the percentage of first”. In fact, a couple of days of rest were needed. Jannik filled them by sleeping a lot, playing Burraco, his great passion, and taking a few walk. An amateur video immortalized him while walking on the streets of Manhattan, in the company of the athletic trainer Ferrara and the Sparring partner inserted. Someone also asked him for a selfie. Those images reassured the endless Sinnerian platea. It is the sign that everyone was waiting for: recovery proceeds quickly.

agenda

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Today, therefore, Sinner starts to train again. Just in the same minutes in which the draw ceremony will be held, usually attended by the reigning champions. Jannik has a more important commitment, that is, the gradual return to perfect physical shape. The meetings of the main scoreboard begin on Sunday, that of Jannik will be scheduled for Monday or Tuesday. As Ivan Ljubicic, ex Federer and current talent of Sky, explained, with a recovery in 2-3 days, the illness accused of Cincinnati will not cause any repercussions to the New York performances. However, it will be important to dose the energies in the first week, in front of opponents on the most affordable paper, also to avoid staying on the field too long, under the infernal heat of heat and humidity of Flushing Meadows (yesterday, with rain, temperature collapsed at 22 degrees). In this, Sinner is unparalleled. His alter ego, Carlos Alcaraz, always disperses some more efforts on the street. No, not those of the mixed double, given that the match in pairs with Raducanu was a sort of performance.

Calculations

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The Spaniard wants to go back to his head. In the race it is ahead of 1890 points, in the official ranking it would jump to the command by winning the US Open. That’s why the defense of the sample is double. Sinner aims at the third Slam 2025, or at least to arrive at the bottom, and then play the first place in indoor tournaments, his favorite hunting ground.