Tennis: from Shelton to Bellucci the Mancini to conquer the circuit

The hand of the devil in the sport of the devil. The left -handed drone does not surrender to the passage of time and the retreat of Rafael Nadal, its bearer par excellence: the peaks of the Spaniard will be unreachable for many, but also in this era of tennis – in which an heir of Rafa, stylistically, not It exists – players who build the game with the left resist. To suggest it are the last days: see Mattia Bellucci, atypical and original exponent of Italian tennis, a white fly that adds news to the rich tricolor panorama.

Bellucci

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The left -handed man of Busto Arsizio conquered everyone, even those who did not know him before the Exploit in Rotterdam with the semifinal lost against De Minaur after having beaten Medvedev and Tsitsipas, starting from the qualifications: Bellucci was thus jumped to position number 68 of the ranking and now now It aims to reach noble positions of the ranking, as done by its peers (year plus, year less) Sinner, Musetti, Cobolli, Arnaldi and Darderi. For a left -handed talent, there is one who may have found himself, to the delight of lovers of aesthetics in tennis: Denis Shapovalov, former number 10 in the world, won the most important title of his career in Dallas, the first 500, After months when the lights around him had faded. Many had surrendered to the idea of ​​seeing Shapo compete in the most important tournaments and the road – if we talk about 1000 and Slam – is still long. Denis will have to confirm herself in the coming weeks and demonstrate (especially to himself) that he has found the continuity that has always missed him. But the success in Dallas brought it close to the Top-30 (it is number 32, with 22 positions earned) and opens new perspectives to a career that still has to be defined: the Canadian has the semifinal in Wimbledon in 2021 in the curriculm and the Final in Paris-Burcy in 2019, both lost against Novak Djokovic. It was years in which Shapovalov was there to really become a pretender for the great titles: his original and creative tennis, with left -handed straight and even reverse in one hand, were a show for the eyes, but less for the bulletin board.

Shelton

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Mancini are often like this: creative and perhaps inconstant, take or leave. Like Ben Shelton, the first in the ranking among the players who command with the left: the American is number 14 in the world, he is still young (from 2002) but time runs quickly in tennis and is therefore called to a level season , to get closer to the best. While behind him (number 15) there is Jack Draper, a player who seems to have achieved the maturity phase of his career and who, after the semifinal at the US Open lost against Jannik Sinner, has at least top-10 ambitions. The British is a left -handed left from Shelton and Shapovalov, more concrete and tactically intelligent as Ugo Humbert, number 17 in the world and therefore he too in the important areas of the ranking can be: the Frenchman has dreamed of reaching the final in Burcy in the autumn, with the defeat against Sascha Zverev. And even in the brand new generations, left -handed tennis is alive and ambitious in the person of Learner Tien, a more mannarine player who weaves the fields on the pitch and drives opponents crazy as happened with Daniiil Medvedev at the Australian Open. The 2005 boy could come really up, keeping the flame alive: the hand of the devil resists. Also thanks to Bellucci, the talent that was also missing in the flourishing Italian panorama.