Jannik Sinner attended the 2024 Supertennis Awards together with many different Italian tennis gamers who’ve carried out an awesome season. The world number one has received amongst different issues the Australian Open, US Open, ATP Finals and Davis Cup this season.
The Italian, interviewed by Supertennis, stated the most effective factor of the yr has been the love of the gang and followers. Particularly contemplating how he and his group have had some troublesome moments.
“You only see what you see on the court and there I have done incredible things. Off it, a lot of things have happened. I have had honest people around me, we have held each other tight, there have been difficult moments and now I still have the opportunity to thank my team, the people who are close to me and the public who have supported me since January 1st,” he stated.
The world number one has received amongst different issues the Australian Open, US Open, ATP Finals and Davis Cup this season.
In the identical interview with Supertennis he added: “We are obviously all very happy with this season, we had a great year, we ended the year in the best possible way with the victory of the Billie Jean King Cup and then us with the Davis Cup. It couldn’t have ended better. A great job but it is the result of many years of commitment. An important commitment and therefore we are all happy.”
Jannik Sinner & Novak Djokovic, ATP Finals 2023© Stream screenshot
Sinner received the Davis Cup with Matteo Berrettini and the opposite Italian gamers. Exactly about this the ATP No.1 stated how clearly within the Italian group he has all the time felt protected, as along with his teammates they’re good buddies even off the courtroom.
“When you play against someone you have to lose a little bit of friendship but the respect is always the same. Speaking from my personal side, I have done many things. I am happy with the steps I have taken. If someone is happy off the court, then they bring it on the court,” he stated.
Sinner additionally stated that for Christmas – being a particular second for him – he hopes to be calm and have a good time along with his household and, even when he would not know the place he shall be but, he wish to be at house along with his mother and father.
And relating to subsequent yr, Jannik was very cautious, additionally maybe due to the doping challenge: “You never know what will happen in the future. I hope we will have a peaceful year, with important improvements and many positive things. I don’t just wish it for myself but also for all the athletes here and the people around me.”
Novak Djokovic & Jannik Sinner, ATP Finals 2023© Stream screenshot
In the meantime, the change of technical information, from Riccardo Piatti to Simone Vagnozzi after the 2022 Australian Open, was one of many essential and vital factors in Jannik’s profession. After his first prime 10 end, the Italian was capable of remodel himself and enhance farther from a tactical and bodily perspective by counting on his new coach. The trail he took has truly borne fruit on this final yr and a half, after simply as a lot time spent working and studying from defeats. Now Jannik and his group are having fun with their first triumphs on the Slam stage and the primary on this planet, with the purpose of not eager to cease in any respect.
Within the interview given to Esquire Australia, the 23-year-old revealed what he has discovered and assimilated most on this expertise of working with the coach from the Marche.
“When Simone joined my team, he gave me seven or eight pieces of information per match. I honestly didn’t understand anything. He told me: Every now and then you do a slice. But I didn’t know how to do it, so we made a lot of changes. It’s a shot that I don’t do technically correctly, because I hold the racket with two hands. However, I feel more confident now. Simone is good because we talk a lot and he doesn’t impose rules on me.
He asks me to be more fluid and with the right distance. Touching the ball in the right way also means spending less energy. I’ve matured, I understand myself more. It may seem stupid but knowing yourself is fundamental. I worked a lot on it with the sports psychologist Riccardo Ceccarelli. Sometimes I lost matches because I spent too much energy, cramps started, discomfort. But when I started to admit that I had made a mistake, I made small steps forward. In competitions it’s easier for me, I easily forget the mistake. In training instead I try to improve quickly,” he defined.
Jannik Sinner, ATP Finals 2023© Stream screenshot
In the course of the lengthy interview with Esquire Australia, Jannik opened up and defined intimately what occurred in 2024.
“It was a tough time. I couldn’t talk to anyone. I couldn’t vent or ask for help. Everyone who knew me and watched me play understood that there was something wrong with me. I had sleepless nights, because even if you are sure of your innocence, you know that these things are complex. Everyone immediately told the truth and that allowed me to play. But at Wimbledon I was white. And even after that, my feeling towards people was fear.
I went to train at the Clubhouse in Cincinnati and I thought: how do they look at me? What do they really think of me? I understood who my real friends are. I have grown so much this year, both mentally and physically” he then reiterated, underlining: “The results you see now are not sudden. They are the fruit of the hard work we have done in the last two years. I am the son of a chef and I know that you don’t start cooking a good dish in a few minutes. You study, you understand, you try and try again, then the final dish will be good,” he analyzed.
