Sinner, there is no doubt that he won this battle: the statements displaced everyone.
It would have been impossible, even if we wanted to, not to notice the disparity in treatment between Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini. The latter has been targeted for an entire year for his controversial relationship with Melissa Satta, who over the past 12 months has been subjected to criticism to unwarranted accusations. It was her, they said, to blame for the Roman’s umpteenth injury, as if she were a vampire capable of sucking energy and muscle tone out of him. But whatever, their story now belongs to the past and she, for sure, will be refreshed by it.
Disparity of treatment, we said. Yeah, because no one, so far, has dared to point a finger at Anna Kalinskaya, the new girlfriend of the world number 2. On the contrary, this love story has even been greeted with great enthusiasm by the fans, as if it were a harbinger of good things and even greater successes for the South Tyrolean champion.
But why, precisely, is no one afraid that love might distract Jannik, while it was feared that Matteo had given up tennis to devote himself only to Melissa? It all depends on her profession: Anna is a tennis player, as is Sinner’s own, reasoning that everyone is convinced that it will not be a problem for her, accepting the fact that tennis is her boyfriend’s priority.
Sinner, what a welcome: Anna is welcome
Even journalist Riccardo Bisti is convinced, who in recent hours gave an interview to Mowmag as part of which he spoke about the two blue tennis players.
Relative to Matthew he limited himself to talking about his long-awaited return to the grass, while regarding Jannik he went out of his way to defend the recently made official relationship. “Sinner does not get sidetracked by anything at all,” he said regarding the possibility that his love for Kalinskaya might distract him, “On the contrary, dating an athlete, who does the same job as him and therefore perfectly understands the demands, the downtime that a tennis player has to experience between travel and waiting at airports, training, routines and press conferences, an athlete like Anna Kalinaska understands it very well.
“Indeed,” he noted, “much better than any girlfriend who is not from the tennis world. However, the stability of a player should not be dictated by the profession of one’s partner, but the fact that in this case she is also a tennis player can only be that bonus. What matters is the professionalism of the player. “
