Jannik Sinner, the boy of strong choices headed to the top

Beijing, 3 October – The golden boy who now joins the legend in the Italian history of tennis Panatta al fourth place in the ATP ranking he is a 22 year old who rarely gets his strategy wrong even off the pitch. Jannik Sinner, with that air always suspended between the serious and the reserved, is someone who is not alone in Beijing it beats Carlos Alcaraz for the fourth time – first player in the world to do it – but he is also a master of programming himself. If he hadn't chosen to leave home very soon, at thirteen, to be trained by Riccardo Piatti in Bordighera, most likely he would not have reached the elite of the racket. Likewise, the apparently untimely choice at the beginning of 2022 to leave the maestro to rely on Simone Vagnozzi, and also to Darren Cahill, it surprised most but responded to the champion's need to find new perspectives, grow, change register: a tension that is often associated with the greatness of champions. And the same new coaches, on several occasions, underlined Jannik's predestined nature, always eager to learn and question himself at every training session.

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Many didn't like the South Tyrolean's decision give up the Davis rounds staged in mid-September in Bologna. Ultimately, the marathon – lost – against Zverev to Us Open would still have allowed recovery. Now, however, in Beijing we have seen the sparkling and refurbished talent of the blue, whose step to the side then did not have a disastrous outcome in Davis as his teammates magnificently took the pass for the finals in Malaga. Now he is in the final in China Medvedev, someone against whom Sinner has always lost in his career, six times. And the Russian is also the one ahead of him in the ranking: an extra incentive for ours, who in the meantime already knows he has written the history of Italtennis. At 22 years old. There is still time to improve, to attack the first Slam with all the relevant credentials. Of course Jannik's flight must be colored more blue. Both Pietrangeli and Panatta are legends for what they did with the national team rather than for the Roland Garros they won. But even that glory linked to our entire movement will be an objective of Sesto's talent, who will want to present himself as a protagonist at the Malaga Finals. With the right moves, the right times, as always.