Sinner, if it’s true that nothing happens by chance, this is just the confirmation everyone has been waiting for: now it’s official.
Fabio Fognini says that a tennis player with a hand like his has not yet been born in Italy. Yet it would be foolish to deny that, in the meantime, whatever the champion from Arma di Taggia may say about it, there have seen the light, in the Bel Paese, of boys who nevertheless have an extraordinary hand. A hand that has allowed them to give themselves satisfaction and success to no end.
It took some time for Italian tennis to return to its former glory, but anything can be said except that it was not worth the long wait. If Matteo Berrettini led the way, in a way, by giving himself and the fans a final at Wimbledon, the new generation was no less. Needless to dwell on the majesty of Jannik Sinner’s tennis, who is world No. 1 certainly not by mere happenstance, quite the contrary.
So much joy has been dispensed, likewise, by Lorenzo Musetti and Jasmine Paolini, who at the All England Club have been, so far, absolutely stunning. She is in the final, while the Carrarino is battling, at the time of going online, against Novak Djokovic, to secure, like Jasmine, his first Slam final. Although the South Tyrolean was eliminated in the quarters, therefore, it would be unfair to say that the Italians away in London did not get our fill of excitement.
Sinner, nothing happens by chance: the confirmation we’ve been waiting for
Congratulates, in all this, Angelo Binaghi, president of Fitp, who said at the microphones of SuperTennis that he was very excited, as well as proud of the talents of the domestic nursery.
“This (Paolini and Musetti’s success, ed.) means that there is not only Jannik, but there is a system that works. A system that is not only the Federation, it is made by the circles, by the teachers who are better than 20 years before, by the leaders. And this system is yielding unexpected results.”
“But the repeated placings in the quarterfinals, in the semifinals,” he noted, “perhaps are worth more to the system, because it means that it is not a passing phenomenon, it is not an extraordinary stroke of luck, it is not just a great player, but it means that the choices made by a whole system that followed us 10-15 years ago were right and are bearing fruit. It means that we are there,” he concluded, “and that, as I have been pointing out in the past few months, we have a generation of boys and girls that we will enjoy for the next 15 years. Far from a flash in the pan, then. It’s serious business here. Very serious.
