Sinner, it just wasn’t meant to work out. There is no future for this couple: the announcement runs on the web.
Serbia’s unexpected exit has already upset the balance of the Davis Cup abundantly. Novak Djokovic’s national team was one of the most formidable competitors, but that does not mean Italy will walk on velvet. It certainly proved to be strong, very strong: woe, however, to let down its guard. Least of all with the Spain of Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz still around.
Filippo Volandri knows well, however, the qualities of his team. And he knows how concrete the chances are for the Azzurri to repeat last year’s success. Especially if, as also hoped for by Nicola Pietrangeli, Matteo Berrettini manages to pull himself together and return to his former glory. Then yes, that would be a problem for all the other teams in the competition. There would be none for anyone, in the words of the former tennis player, now 90 years old.
The Italtennis coach has not even had time to enjoy the happiness resulting from last November’s triumph that it is already time for him and everyone else to turn their eyes to the future. To the time, more precisely, when the blue battalion will be called upon to return to the court to defend the salad bowl and to try to reconfirm itself as undisputed champion of the legendary and historic team competition.
Sinner, it was not meant to be: bitch for Volandri
No one, let’s face it, would want to be in Volandri’s place. Even less now, given and considering that the national team’s coach is already dealing with the first mangles of the case. With such a wide and varied assortment of talented players to choose from, it will be really hard to decide who deserves a place on the team and who should, instead, stay out.
The situation will be especially complicated, it should be emphasized, on the doubles front. Now that Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori have played a Slam final, it would almost be obvious to convene them both. Instead, it wouldn’t. “Simone and Andrea have been outstanding,” Volandri told Gazzetta dello Sport, “but to convene two doubles players would change the balance a bit, and at the Finals Sinner and Sonego played great, so much so that they would like to get together for the Olympics. Anyway, there is time to decide, even preconvocations a month in advance are never final.”
We will not see at the Davis Cup Finals, then, the pair that dominated in Melbourne. It would have been convenient for Jannik Sinner and others to have such a well-rounded and already broken-in duo at their disposal, but so be it. No one would want to be in Volandri’s place. Exactly.
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