Sinner, uncontainable fury. He was blind: he exploded like never before. The new controversy sent him into a rage.
The fact that he is No. 1 in the world and won a Slam in January does not, unfortunately, make him immune to criticism. Jannik Sinner, but then again, we could well have imagined that, has also been engulfed in controversy. Because not everyone, it seems, has digested the defeat he suffered in the Wimbledon quarterfinals at the hands of the very insidious Daniil Medvedev.
And from there, what calls what, the “scuffles” began. There is a good slice of Italians who were disappointed by this knockout and took the opportunity, as they often do, to point the finger at the South Tyrolean champion. Questioning, even, his leadership. And, with it, the grandeur of the feats that the native of Sesto Pusteria has performed over the past year.
In the crosshairs, needless to say, is the private life of the tennis player, who, not surprisingly, until a couple of months ago, had always been careful not to expose himself in the media. He had tried his best to protect his relationship with influencer Maria Braccini, but now that he is with Russian tennis player Anna Kalinskaya it is a constant rumor and gossip. Only now the situation is definitely escalating.
Sinner as Berrettini: Panatta goes on a rampage
The defeat at Wimbledon has given detractors the space to polemicize this relationship and the fact that the love between them has distracted her as much as it has him.
Something Adriano Panatta strongly disagrees with, who at Fatto Quotidiano stood up for the world number 1, thundering as never before. “As in all sports, even in tennis there is no such thing as unbeatability,” the legendary champion noted, “Sinner is a player who loses little and usually only to the top five players in the world. People had become accustomed to Sinner’s level of the last few months and the end of last year but it can’t always be like that, one can be better or worse and it can happen that he doesn’t do well physically or psychologically, it’s normal.”
“One must know that Jannik is not a robot and one cannot expect perfection,” he said before blurting out. “It’s all bullshit,” these were his words regarding the attack on Sinner and Kalinskaya, “It also happened with Berrettini and Satta but it’s all nonsense, as far as I remember women have never hurt anyone. Will that be enough to quell tempers? We wouldn’t swear to it too much…
