The cyclone Sinner overwhelms big and, above all, children. Zugarelli, one of the champions of the Davis ’76: “At the school of the Foro Italico I have the overbooking, I can’t welcome everyone”. Circles grow by 30%. Bertolucci: “A avalanche effect”
The Sinner effect is a cyclone. He overwhelmed everyone: enthusiasts, unbelievers, dreamers, women, children, elderly of the racket. And of course the circles, those places where tennis is done. Like poetry. In Italy there are 4,096, a nice 30% more than in 2019. They are oasis, sports islands. But you have to enter those places greased by the number one tennis in the world to really understand what happened. All the more so after the encore to the Australian Open. Tonino Zugarelli, one of the great Davis ’76, now directs the tennis school of the Foro Italico, and must deal with tennis overbooking. “We have the closed number: 200 to the maximum. And we send them the children, they are too many. I said no to several: I am mortified, I’m sorry. But that’s the case.” All around there are marbles, the sun of Rome, and the noise of tennis is everywhere. The children, continues Zuga, “speak of tennis constantly. Someone Sinner emulates him. It is a teaching model, civic education. It shows how it is expressed before a match, inside the field and even after. Weighs the words”. The Sinner effect is also civic. Because “he is a boy who teaches the way of being in society. A model that represents children in sport”.