Sinner already has two against: here’s what the South Tyrolean tennis player has been up to and why they’re so angry with him.
He’s smart, he’s honest, he’s respectful. He also has a heart this big. Hating him is virtually impossible. So much so that on the circuit, certainly not by accident, he is one of the most beloved. He has so many friends on the Tour, and many of them, over time, have gone out of their way to praise him, to tell the public how good and funny is the tennis player who is making the whole world dream.
Jannik Sinner is on the crest of a wave, to the point that right after his victory in Melbourne, his haters’ page officially shut down. They had been preaching for years that the South Tyrolean would never be able to win a Slam, reasoning that, once they were disproved, there was really no reason to run that useless smear campaign anymore. The bandwagon, but that is now known, may one day empty. Quite a few last-minute supporters will get off as soon as — we hope it never happens, of course, but then again, he’s human — Blue stumbles. In the meantime, though, we might as well enjoy the view from up there.
The fact that he is on fire right now does not mean, however, that everyone likes him just fine. Someone who doesn’t like Sinner, as he should, is there. And he came out in the open just in the last few hours, when Jannik in Rotterdam raised his second title in 3 weeks to the sky.
Sinner, told him in front of everyone: watch out, Jannik
In the other half of the court was Alex de Minaur, who started 2024 off to a great start. He cracked the top ten, yet on Sunday he failed in the feat of beating the man who, knocking him out seven times, is now his black beast.
The Australian probably knew he had little chance in the face of the champion of the moment. However, he defended himself brilliantly, making his life more difficult than expected. For the Italian it was “a great battle” and, in the “celebratory” post posted after the victory, he tagged him congratulating him. Epic, however, was de Minaur’s response: “I don’t like you,” she wrote to him, naturally ironizing that she could never beat him.
And Sinner, in the past few days, had also “angered” someone else, namely the first opponent he met along the way in Holland. When, after the match, the press had asked him what he had learned from yet another Match against Jannik, Botic van de Zandschulp’s response had been epic: “I learned that I must not play in tournaments where Sinner is present anymore.” Watch out, Sinner: if you keep this up, you’ll turn them all against you…
