“It’s been tough,” Sinner’s fans in tears after the announcement. Here’s what came out just days before the Australian Open. The words.
It will be a completely different Jannik Sinner as he begins his Australian Open adventure in a few days. Number one in the world, meanwhile, as he wasn’t last year, a process in which he will be a protagonist, a loss, that of his aunt, that has touched him deeply as the blue tennis player himself has stated over the past few weeks.
Unbelievable pressures, and it could not be otherwise since we are talking about the strongest tennis player on the face of the Earth who will also have to defend that title he won, even unexpectedly, in January 2024. But from that moment on Jannik has really taken the descent, proving that he is the strongest of them all, also showing that he has huge margins for improvement. And there is curiosity, of course, as to how he will approach the upcoming engagements. And, while waiting for the field, the official channel of the Australian tournament continues to publish interviews that, whether you like it or not, touch and also a lot.
The words of Riccardo Patti, Sinner’s first coach
Riccardo Patti has been a very important figure inside Jannik’s life. He was basically his mentor, the first coach from the time he was 13 years old until February 2022, when Jannik decided to rely first on Vagnozzi and then on Cahill. Patti spoke about Jannik to Australian channels, and said this.
“The separation was difficult for me, that’s for sure. But I think he made the right choice,” she said. And he also recalled what were Jannik’s first steps in the tennis world: “Sinner came to me when he was 13 years old. I had seen him in Milan in an under-12 tournament, I remembered him by his red hair but I didn’t know his name. As soon as I watched him in practice I thought, ‘I want to adopt this kid.’ He had seen right. The results proved him right, too.