Jannik Sinner had no choice but to make this very difficult decision: it was inevitable, he already knew.
13 1/2 years. So old was Jannik Sinner when he decided to leave everything known and familiar behind to embark on an adventure that he did not yet know how far it would take him. For he could hardly have imagined, that teenager with the unruly mop of hair, that one day he would be number 1 in the world. That he would dominate the tennis circuit. He dreamed of it, but he did not yet know that his every wish would come true.
Things turned out, instead, exactly as he hoped. Within just 10 years he reaped the benefits of that very difficult choice, not at all taken for granted for a boy his age. He pursued with great self-sacrifice the goals he set out to achieve and, now, he could not be happier than that. Or rather, he certainly would be happier right now if the doping charge that has been dogging him for the past few months were not hanging over his head, but that is another story.
The one we want to dwell on today has nothing to do with Clostebol and the inevitable consequences of the scandal that erupted during the summer season, with the Itia ruling and the Wada appeal. It has to do, on the other hand, with that little boy who became a man and who had no choice but to make another difficult decision. Very difficult. But, at the same time, absolutely inevitable.
Sinner, that explains it all: off-limits zone
In “Jannik Beyond Tennis, Sinner Tells Himself,” the original Sky production of which Fanpage saw a small preview, the San Candido native let loose with a particularly unexpected confession.
When asked what price he had to “pay” to achieve his dream of being the best, he gave the following answer, “As a person, I have never changed-his reflection started from afar-his success has never changed me and it has not changed how I treat the people in front of me, the people I meet. What does change is that I have a little less free time. Because I am a person who devotes all his time to work. So it depends on me.”
“If I want to go home tomorrow,” he remarked, leaving everyone dumbfounded, ”I may go, but I don’t want to because my career started when I left home at 13 and a half years old. Now I am 23 years old and I have reached the point I always dreamed of, to become number one.” No going back, then. Not as long as his star continues to shine so brightly.
