Different in all style of play and personality, but with the family values in common the work and dream of an all -Italian final. Maybe already in Rome
These are the opposites that attract us. They are Mars and Apollo. Jannik Sinner and the art of war, Lorenzo Musetti and the delicacy of the chisel. They have always been, even when we didn’t know, or at least few knew it. If years ago, right here in Rome they faced each other in the prequalifications of the tournament, the anteroom of the anteroom of paradise. They were two kids, minutes, but with the seed of talent and work. So different so equal. Jannik the dominant number 1 solid like his cross -country blows, Lorenzo among the survivors of the reverse to one hand with his variations that send the opponents on tilt but a continuity that he is finding only now. Listening to the chatter in the avenues of the Foro Italico, two currents are already forming among fans, the Sinnerians and the Musettians. Coppi and Bartali, Rivera and Mazzola, Moser and Saronni, dualisms that have marked the history of our sport.
Paths
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Over the years their paths have been almost opposite. Lorenzo More Ondivago, genius and poor constancy, Jannik less funambolic but with constant growth and landing in top 10 to 20 years. The muzzle came to us a little later, but with his time. Now he has also achieved the results of the results with a constancy that enlarges. The earth is its kingdom, the first Italian to hit the semifinals of the three Masters 1000 on red consecutively. For Jannik, the only red with which he had a real confidence was that of his hair with just a tournament conquered by the 19 total. But now he has studied too, he is learning, and in these months of forced distance from the tournaments he has also built a solidity on the Red Carpet of tennis.
Rivalry
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Rivals yes, but not too much. Musets until recently did not feel fully part of the Elite in which Sinner returns. But now things have changed, now he too is scary and the entry into the top 10 with the possibility of reaching the number 6 in the world has changed things. Together they won the Davis cup twice, but Lorenzo Dalla Glura felt a little crushed. Jannik was captain capable of unite, and also in these days he wanted to make merit to Lorenzo, with whom he could share the final of Rome but also the stage of Turin: “I am very happy – said Jannik after having deconstructed Casper Ruud -. It is great to be two in the final stages of the house tournament. But above all I am happy because he had a not easy period at the beginning of the year, but he has managed to get out and now he has found a great one. Costanza. maybe they will soon wait for other endings, even more important … “. Lorenzo has always talked about Jannik as a point of reference for the whole Italian movement: “The final between the two of us in Rome would be the dream of all Italians”. And his partner Veronica stressed how important Sinner was for his growth: “He sees him as a push to work better and better, to get closer and get even one day, perhaps at number one”.
FAMILY
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But there is one thing that manages to unite Apollo and Mars, the family. Guys who have a safe harbor in their roots and origins. The place to return to share joy when things are fine and where to find comfort when it is not. Both children of the “working class”, who know the value of work and daily sacrifice that it is a refuge in Val Fiscalina or in a marble quarry such as Musetti’s dad. They are the worker tennis who finally goes to heaven.
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