Sinner, there is someone who is preparing a plan to get the blue guy in trouble. But he for one is not so convinced he can pull it off….
Jannik Sinner’s story is beautiful because it is emblematic of how step by step, day by day, a puny boy with unruly curls can turn into a champion. Into an athlete so strong that at the mere mention of his name his opponents tremble.
He’s tarred so many rivals over the past year that there are so many now afraid of him. Keeping their fingers crossed during the draws, hoping that Lady Luck will spare them and prevent them from crossing paths with the hero of the moment again. But they know very well, all of them, that the South Tyrolean will do crazy things no matter who he faces in the years to come. Because he has already abundantly proven that he can hold his own. That he has grown so much that he can conquer it as soon as possible, that summit he has long dreamed of and longed for.
With his achievements in Miami, he has only further strengthened his already solid reputation as an unmatched champion. So much so that, on the doorstep of the semifinals, a certain opponent had spoken some rather flattering words about the San Candido native. And when those admitting his superiority are tennis players as strong as he is, the satisfaction is double.
Sinner under siege: they’ll try hard
Talking about Sinner, in Florida, was Sascha Zverev, then defeated at one step of the final by Grigor Dimitrov in deluxe form.
“He won the Australian Open,” the German noted during a press conference, “he won in Rotterdam and he has a 19-1 record this year, I think. If he has those stats, it makes sense that he is on the right track. He has had an incredible performance so far, compared to what Djokovic, Federer and Nadal have done in the past. If he continues like this, not only will he be the best in the world, he will be the best in the world for the next 10 years,” prophesied the Hamburg-born top ten player.
“It’s up to him and also to me, Carlos (Alcaraz, ed.), Daniil (Medvedev, ed.) and Novak (Djokovic, ed.) to prevent that from happening. Jannik is one of those players that you have to pay close attention to. We study him, try to understand his game and what can challenge him.” That is, assuming anyone can, since only a few in the past year have solved the Sinner rebus.