Sara Errani achieved one in all her largest desires in 2024 by profitable the gold medal on the Paris Olympic Video games along with Jasmine Paolini.
The winner of the Profession Golden Slam in doubles has by no means hidden her ardour for the Olympics and, on the Italian podcast Supernova, she revealed that she has all the time reserved a particular house for the Olympic match, preferring it even to the Grand Slam occasions. However not solely that, as she additionally expressed her opinion on Jannik Sinner’s doping scandal and on the campaign carried out by Nick Kyrgios towards the Italian.
“I have often argued with other tennis players: I have always preferred the Olympics to a Grand Slam tournament. A medal has always been a dream of mine. This year has been incredible. I have achieved my biggest dream. When you start a tournament you know very well that every match is tough. Final? Jasmine was very tense and struggled a lot in the first set. I told her to have fun and relax, I tried to calm her down. After a few smiles, she started hitting as she knows how,” she instructed.
The Italian participant then made a touch upon Kyrgios. Errani admitted that she has all the time appreciated the Australian for the present he’s able to creating on the courtroom, however that his sturdy statements on the Jannik Sinner case didn’t go down properly in any respect.
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“I don’t know him personally. He has a very strong personality and I’ve always liked him. Watching him play is a show. Thinking about my character, I shouldn’t like him, but I like him. Lately he’s made a few bad and unfortunate comments: in that case I didn’t like him that much. I’m not just talking about what he said about Sinner. He made some rather strong statements. Then when you’re not around and you play less… he seemed self-centered and I didn’t like him that much,” she added.
“The Sinner’s doping case? We talk about it among ourselves. We’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not easy, every case has its nuances and it’s not possible to generalize. You have to know how everything went, it’s difficult. You have to improve the timing, because there are athletes who waited months and months; while others solved it in two or three days,” defined Errani.
