“For me, on a personal level Sinner is a wonderful guy and a great player, but in the end you never know what happened,” he mentioned.
The pinnacle-to-head of the challenges between the Italian and the Dutchman mentioned 6-0 for two-time Slam champion, 4 of which gained in 2024 alone, together with the one which delivered the second consecutive Davis Cup into the fingers of the Italians.An actual nightmare for the ATP No.40, who prior to now had already proven that he was scared by the thought of discovering the 23-year-old Italian on his path in tournaments.
After the enchantment by WADA, a brand new ruling is awaited from the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (CAS). Within the meantime, nevertheless, Italy is having fun with its champion, with the hope that every part can be resolved in the proper route.
The Italian federation can not assist however rejoice the extraordinary outcomes obtained by the tennis motion of its nation throughout 2024, closed with the triumphs on the Billie Jean King Cup and within the Davis Cup.
Jannik Sinner, Davis Cup Finals 2024© Stream screenshot
The objectives have been commented with nice satisfaction by the chairman of the Italian Tennis Federation Angelo Binaghi, in an interview given to the Gazzetta dello Sport. The chairman targeted on two vital figures who helped lead the group to victory, captains Tathiana Garbin and Filippo Volandri:
“They are two intelligent, empathetic guys, who were helped a lot at the beginning by Graziano Risi, a truly enlightened manager who deals with the technical sector. Above all, they were able to create cohesion and harmony, they worked as a team in a hyper-individual sport like tennis and in a country, Italy, where teammates have often found their fiercest enemies among themselves,” he mentioned.
Binaghi then talked about Sinner’s positivity to Clostebol: analyzing: “He was acquitted by an independent court, he made two appeals against the suspension and won them, I don’t know what more needs to be done to prove his innocence. We are, like everyone else, waiting for the decision, and like everyone else, we know nothing about the ongoing proceedings and the timing. As a Federation, we had thought about going to court but the player’s team advised us not to do so.”
After the Finals and the victories within the two crew occasions, Binaghi revealed the following victory he desires of: “Now I imagine one of our athletes winning the Rome Internationals. We are already at 70% more in advance sales than a year ago, we will still fit them all in the Foro. In synergy with Sport e Salute, we are preparing a plan to expand the spaces, also with more fields, which will leave the world speechless.”