Sinner: “I thought of giving up everything. I dreamed of being a pilot, but without money.

“Everyone is free to say what they want, for me it is important that I know what happened and that I passed. I don’t care to respond to those who attacked me. I don’t wish anyone to go to an innocent such a stuff, we are in a world where everyone can say what they want”: so Jannik Sinner in the interview given to Special Tg1. “I miss the competition – he added -, I am very happy that this phase is over and I am ready to leave, even if a stop period, perhaps not so long, I needed”. Speaking of the clostebol affair adds: “I didn’t understand what happened, I didn’t know anything. I struggled to accept these three months, because I didn’t do anything in my head. I lived a whole year of difficulty”.

the long wait

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“We always look at the results – continues the champion -, but how I felt on the pitch it was not like a player he should feel, because we train a lot and then have fun when we play a good game. I am fun, I saw him go a little away, because I thought about other things. And when I arrived in Australia last January I was uncomfortable, also because it seemed to me that the other players would also look at me. give up everything. Tennis is like poker. If you see that the other struggles, this gives you strength. I have moments when I’m tired, nervous and I don’t feel the game; My team has to make tricks to make me feel the game. There are times when not everything goes perfectly. But in the end tennis is a game and in the end you have to play. Bolk the racket or pull the ball you don’t need “.

Dreams and shots

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“As a child – says Jannik – my dream was to become a Formula 1 driver, why do I have a great passion for machines. But without money what could I do? The football? Yes, did I like it, but I didn’t have all this passion. My most solid blow? The reverse, while the service can be improved. What would I would like to have my opponents? What gave me the first slam, a straight long line.