Sinner, this little anecdote says a lot about the South Tyrolean champion’s way of being: it’s all clearer now.
Many are convinced that he would have taken up skiing if one fine day he had not suddenly decided to pick up a racket and try playing tennis. We will never know how it would have turned out if he had not decided to move to Bordighera, but we are not entirely certain that the most popular hypothesis is also the one most “true” to reality.
Jannik Sinner is a multifaceted character. Curious and disciplined, he has a great interest in the world around him and not only, as one might think, in the sport that has made him a celebrity. This is evidenced by the fact that he told the Gazzetta dello Sport that he has done something in the past that says a lot about his character and temperament. About the hunger he has to “eat” the world, one bite after another. Of never falling behind everyone else.
What he revealed may sound like nonsense, but it is not. It says a lot, precisely, about the way of being of the champion of the moment, who is not satisfied with the essentials. He wants to see beyond his nose, the South Tyrolean tennis player. And we like it that way, because it means that he will always and always seek an explanation for everything. As much to the successes as, inevitably, to the failures he will experience on his own skin from time to time.
Sinner, it’s clearer now: he finally knows
Do you think Jannik is all hotel and tennis courts? You are sorely mistaken. He likes to read a lot, always has, so much so that, as a teenager, he tried his hand at reading a rather unusual but certainly interesting volume. At least in his eyes and those of those who, like him, are so curious about the world and its countless mysteries.
“I read a book that explains some phenomena,” confessed the San Candido champion, “For example, why holes form in the cheese or things like that…. In the books that will explain the origins of the phenomena there might be, one day not too far away, his story as well, but that is a different kettle of fish.
Do you agree with us at this point that his readings are very “characteristic” and perfectly in line with the character we have come to know? If he has a desire to learn because Swiss cheese is made of holes, it is quite normal for him to analyze his defeats and performances in a scientific way, as if to investigate their origins and causes. And after all, as he also said, “you cannot always think about tennis. You also have to look around and know how to distract yourself. “
